Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.
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Why An Eastern Pacific Tear In Earth’s Crust Could Spare The Pacific Northwest… Eventually
An enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...
A program designed to study the mid-ocean ridge system and enhance understanding of the relationship between the geological processes that lead to planetary renewal in the deep ocean and life forms ...
Ken Sims, a professor in UW’s Department of Geology and Geophysics, recently received a $325,841 National Science Foundation grant to look at understanding the processes and timescales of basalt ...
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Two Major Earthquakes Struck off the Coast of Oregon, Just Miles Away From Massive Underwater Volcano
Seismologists monitoring the seafloor here detected more than 2,000 earthquakes erupting within just one day.
Preface / W. Roger Buck...[et al] -- Global systematics of mid-ocean ridge morphology / Christopher Small -- Linkages between faulting, volcanism, hydrothermal activity and segmentation on fast ...
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For the first time, scientists have recorded signs of the destruction of the Explorer tectonic plate
Geologists have for the first time recorded signs of a "dying" subduction zone — an area where one lithospheric plate sinks under another — in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, according to the journal ...
As part of the ongoing effort, a NASA-supported team recently published one of the most detailed maps yet of the seafloor.
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides scientists with a powerful new tool for monitoring and predicting tectonic activity deep beneath the ...
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