The crushing force of one continent hitting another caused the plate beneath the Tethys Ocean, made of oceanic crust, to slide under the Eurasian ... Balancing aesthetics and accessibility. The ...

A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above, researchers say. However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is among the federal agencies facing budget cuts under President Donald Trump’s 18-month plan to “modernize and ...

Excalidraw is an innovative online whiteboarding tool that uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to convert simple text prompts into detailed, professional-quality diagrams. Whether you ...

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Feb. 12, 2025 — A study gives possible insight into the underprediction of sea ice depletion and the formation of Arctic cyclones. The study could lead to more accurate weather and climate ...

Both areas had pieces of submerged continental crust buried beneath volcanic rock ... This phenomenon was named 'Rifted Oceanic Magmatic Plateau,' or ROMP by researchers. This implied that ...

Ocean sciences span the physics, chemistry, and biology of marine systems. The field encompasses ocean circulation, energy dissipation, marine biology, ecology, biogeochemical cycles, water mass ...