Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is capable of finely characterizing the velocity structure, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation properties of subsurface media, which provides critical ...

Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...

The substance can contain up to 1.5 percent water, and if the ringwoodite under the surface has just one percent water in its ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...

Scientists Crack Mystery Behind Large Slabs of the Earth's Crust That Went 'Missing' From Geological Records The Earth is no ...

Theia and Earth did not combine to form Moon, a new study suggests. The Moon might be a part of only Earth, a sibling 384,400 ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

The mantle transition zone (MTZ), which occurs 410–670 kilometers below Earth's surface, may store several oceans' worth of water. This water, which is carried to such depths by subducting tectonic ...

These mountains are made of extremely dense and ancient material, giving scientists valuable clues about the Earth's early ...

New research from scientists with the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and published in the journal Science found that sample analysis backs up an established model of the moon as a global ...