Geophysics/Gravity

Research answers question on how some magmatic rocks contain random proportions of minerals than what is expected for rocks of their type.Credit: Wits University Researchers at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa,…

New work reveals how carbon behaved during Earth's violent formative periodCredit: Rebecca Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell and Marion Le Voyer, Kanani Lee, and the late Erik Hauri. Washington, DC-- Carbon is essential for life as we…

A new study from a University of Michigan researcher and colleagues at three institutions demonstrates the potential for using existing networks of buried optical fibers as an inexpensive observatory for monitoring and studying…

Rice, Georgia Tech study in Science reveals Pacific temperatures over a millenniumCredit: Cobb Lab HOUSTON - (March 26, 2020) - There is no longer a need to guess what ocean temperatures were like in the remote tropical Pacific hundreds…

Credit: IODP JRSO New Zealand's largest fault is a jumble of mixed-up rocks of all shapes, sizes, compositions and origins. According to research from a global team of scientists, this motley mixture could help explain why the fault…

Ocean drilling project reveals 'mash up' of rock types that lead to unique slow motion earthquake events An international team of scientists has for the first time identified the conditions deep below the Earth's surface that lead to the…

UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking resultsCredit: Linette Boisvert / NASA Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2020 - During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons…

Where tectonic plates meet, a change in angleCredit: Adapted from Oryan and Buck, Nature Geoscience 2020 On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake struck under the seabed off Japan--the most powerful quake to hit the country in modern…

Scripps Oceanography researcher's assertion bolstered by series of new studies New research lends credence to an unorthodox retelling of the story of early Earth first proposed by a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC…

Meeting of the Geological Society of America's Southeastern and Northeastern Geographic Sections Boulder, Colo., USA: In light of evolving circumstances surrounding the spread of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the…

HZDR researchers evaluate the efficiency of environmentally friendly raw material exploration The firms SkyTEM and CGG Multi-Physics are currently testing new methods for environmentally friendly raw material exploration in the southern…

Meeting of the Geological Society of America's Southeastern and Northeastern geographic sections Boulder, Colo., USA: On 20-22 March 2020, geoscientists from the southeastern and northeastern geographic regions of the U.S. and beyond will…

The Imperial College London and UCL researchers say their proof-of-concept study, published today in npj Digital Medicine, paves the way for the development of high-fidelity clinical imaging of the human brain that could be superior to…

Credit: Julia Carr PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Earthquakes produce seismic waves with a range of frequencies, from the long, rolling motions that make skyscrapers sway, to the jerky, high-frequency vibrations that cause tremendous damage to…

Credit: Andrew Gase/National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Subduction zones -- places where one tectonic plate dives beneath another -- are where the world's largest and most damaging earthquakes occur. A new study has found…

Credit: Ehime University Recent progress in theoretical mineral physics based on the ab initio quantum mechanical computation method has been dramatic in conjunction with the rapid advancement of computer technologies. It is now possible…

Geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa, have come up with an original explanation of how nature may produce an intriguing class of magmatic rocks that are made up of only one type of mineralCredit: Wits University …

Researchers will present a wide range of climate work during the APS 2020 March MeetingCredit: Reproduced from Chekroun, Simmonet, and Ghil (Physica D, 2011) DENVER, COLO., FEBRUARY 28, 2020 -- Climate change is one of the most…

The Geological Society of America's South-Central Section to meet in Fort Worth, Texas Boulder, Colo., USA: On 8-10 March 2020, geoscientists from the South-Central region of the U.S. and beyond will convene in Fort Worth, Texas, to…

Credit: university of Warwick When a water droplet lands on a surface it can splash, coat the surface cleanly, or in special conditions bounce off like a beach ball Droplets only bounce when the speed of collision with a…