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A New Theory Offers an Explosive Explanation for Earth's Mysterious Blobs
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 36 minutes agoThis theory joins a cadre of other ideas describing the origin story of plate tectonics, an...
Study Proposes New Mechanism To Explain How The First Continents Formed
Forbes· 11 hours agoGeologists studying the oldest rocks found on Earth believe that partial melting, fueled by the heat released during the decay of radioactive elements, of the first rocks ...
Weird blobs lurking near Earth's core may have been dragged from the surface
LiveScience· 3 days agoStrange "blobs" deep in Earth's middle layer may be chunks of ancient continental crust that have...
Two giant blobs lurk deep within the Earth, but why?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 6 days agoOne blob is located beneath the Pacific Ocean and the...our moon. They are so large that if they were placed on Earth’s surface, they would make a layer...
Deciphering Deep Magma Reservoirs for Groundbreaking Volcanic Predictions
SciTechDaily· 3 days agoNew research into molten rock 20km below the Earth’s surface could help save lives by improving the...
Why do earthquakes happen far away from plate boundaries?
LiveScience· 7 hours agoIt's commonly assumed that earthquakes occur only near the boundaries of tectonic plates, and...
'Buoyant' magma offers clues about the power of volcanoes
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoScientists combined this global data with advanced computer models to look closer at the...
Silver price today: Silver is up 18.47% year to date
USA Today· 1 hour agoThe spot silver price reflects what traders buy and sell silver for immediately, or on the spot. In contrast, the futures price reflects the price for...
The stunning secret Italian lakes that most tourists don’t know about
CNN via AOL· 5 hours agoLakes Como and Garda pull in the crowds as much as Italy’s famous cities and best beaches. But Italy...
New study delves 12 miles into Earth's surface to predict volcanic eruptions
Interesting Engineering· 3 days agoNew research delves deep into Earth's crust to understand magma dynamics, improving volcanic...