The ice giant’s rotation causes daily expansion and contraction of the boundary where its magnetic field slows the solar wind.
AGU Advances
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Super-Earths May Be Solid Deep Inside Their Mantles
New estimates show that a mineral likely common in these rocky planets’ interiors is resistant to melting, even at high temperatures.
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A New Pathway for Energy Redistribution in Near-Earth Space
In situ evidence of bidirectional wave-particle energy transfer enabled by local magnetic-field gradient reveals an inhomogeneity-driven pathway for energy redistribution.
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How Tides and River Water Combine to Amplify Floods
Tidal subharmonics help push water levels higher in tidal rivers.
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Patterned Frozen Soils Get Their Shape from Gravity and Funky Physics
An enigmatic feature of frozen soils can be explained in part by non-Newtonian fluid physics. Enter the Oobleck.
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Fluid-Driven Reactions Restore Fault Strength Between Earthquakes
In fault gouge, fluids drive chemical healing by cementing grains, a mechanism for seismic slip in rocks frictionally expected to creep. This cohesion matters for fault stability.
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Seeing Earth’s Most Common Minerals from Space
A novel method marks an important step toward mapping quartz and feldspar globally.
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How Dehydration-Driven Fluid Pressure Shapes Megathrust Slip Modes
By modeling dehydration-driven fluid pressure, a new study links deep fluids to where megathrust earthquakes end and slow slip begins.
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Shoreline Migration, Sediment Accumulation, and Blue Carbon Storage
Autogenic processes of sediment storage and erosion regulate shoreline movement and therefore, where coastal wetlands develop, setting up subsurface areas of preserved organic matter, blue carbon.
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Unbearable Heat for Hundreds of Millions
The Global South, in particular, is suffering from the consequences of global heating. A new study quantifies heat stress in India by projecting it during the critical seasons.