News tagged with lowermost mantle
Researchers discover unexpected properties of materials in lowermost mantle
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2008 |
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Materials deep inside Earth have unexpected atomic properties that might force earth scientists to revise their models of Earth's internal processes, a team of researchers has discovered.
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What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle
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May 27, 2009 |
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A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.
New picture of Earth's lower mantle
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Jun 21, 2007 |
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Laboratory measurements of a high-pressure mineral believed to exist deep within the Earth show that the mineral may not, as geophysicists hoped, have the right properties to explain a mysterious layer lying just above the ...
Liverpool scientist discovers new layer of the Earth
Apr 14, 2005 |
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A University of Liverpool scientist has discovered a new layer near the Earth's core, which will enable the internal temperature of the Earth's mantle to be measured at a much deeper level than previously possible.
The continents as a heat blanket
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Jan 22, 2009 |
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Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. In doing so, ...
ETH crystallographers explain seismic anisotropy of Earth's D-layer
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May 11, 2006 |
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ETH Zürich researchers discovered a very unusual mechanism of plastic deformation in the Earth's mantle. Furthermore, they have predicted a new family of mantle minerals. These discoveries shed new light on ...
News from Cancer: Risk factors for deadly form of lymphoma
Jul 07, 2008 |
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A new study indicates that the incidence of mantle cell lymphoma, an aggressive type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, is on the rise, most frequently striking men, Caucasians and older individuals. The study, published in the August ...
Alternative Mars volcanism theory offered
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Aug 06, 2007 |
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German scientists have offered an alternative theory involving Martian volcanism.
Electronic heat trap grips deep Earth
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Nov 12, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The key to understanding Earth's evolution, including how our atmosphere gained oxygen and how volcanoes and earthquakes form, is to look deep, really deep, into the lower mantle—a region ...
Journey to the center of the Earth -- Scientists explain tectonic plate motions
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Feb 21, 2008 |
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The first direct evidence of how and when tectonic plates move into the deepest reaches of the Earth is published in Nature today. Scientists hope their description of how plates collide with one sliding below ...
Diamonds show how Earth is recycled
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Jul 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny minerals found inside diamonds have provided us with a rare glimpse of the Earth’s deepest secrets. This exciting new research by a team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, ...
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