smithsonianmag.com
Marie Tharp’s maps helped prove continental drift was real. But her work was initially dismissed as “girl talk”
smithsonianmag.com
Marie Tharp’s maps helped prove continental drift was real. But her work was initially dismissed as “girl talk”
Could water be found in minerals from Earth’s mantle? New research shows a possibility.
livescience.com
Deep within the Earth’s rocky mantle lies oceans’ worth of water locked up in a type of mineral called ringwoodite, new research shows.
huffingtonpost.com
Earth’s tectonic plates may have taken as long as 1 billion years to form, researchers report today in Nature.
huffingtonpost.com
Continents grow like onions, with rings of younger rocks added layer by layer to the perimeter of an ancient landmass. But even though scientists know where continents get bigger, plate tectonic models have never fully explained the how.