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A New Theory Offers an Explosive Explanation for Earth's Mysterious Blobs
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAncient Collision May Have Created Plate TectonicsJose A. Bernat Bacete - Getty Images Among the...
What Causes the Tectonic Plates to Move?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe Plate Boundary Observatory, set up in 2004 by UNAVCO (funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA) as a network of Earth-measuring...
Two giant blobs lurk deep within the Earth, but why?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn this illustration, parts of the ancient planet Theia sink and accumulate at the bottom of the Earth’s mantle. This forms two ‘blobs’ called large...
Geologist Marie Tharp mapped the ocean floor and helped solve one of science's biggest controversies
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 9 months agoMarie Tharp at her drafting table in Lamont Hall, circa 1961.Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and...
Scientists Discover Molten Layer of Rock Beneath Earth's Crust
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoEarthquakes and volcanic eruptions are a result of the movement of large swaths of Earth’s crust,...
Venus volcanoes may be powered by long-ago violent impacts
Space via Yahoo News· 11 months agoartist's impression of a volcano erupting on venus Venus' youthful appearance could be the result of...
Origin of mysterious giant ‘gravity hole’ in Indian Ocean unravelled
The Independent via Yahoo News· 12 months agoA vast section of the Indian Ocean seafloor strangely sinks into a depression as there is less mass...
Volcanic eruption lights up Iceland after weeks of earthquake warnings − a geologist explains what's...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLava erupted through a fissure in Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula on Dec. 18, 2023, shooting almost...
Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTharp with an undersea map at her desk. Rolled sonar profiles of the ocean floor are on the shelf...
Earthquakes Caused by Mysterious Blobs Inside Earth, Scientists Say
Futurism via Yahoo News· 2 months agoOdd Lumps Researchers are suggesting that a powerful collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized...