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The Mysterious Case of Ireland’s Missing Earthquakes

by Elise Cutts 23 June 202323 June 2023

The Emerald Isle has far fewer earthquakes than neighboring Britain. Now scientists think they know why.

Three-dimensional wireframe representation of Earth with a red spotted sphere in the center. The continents are shown in turquoise, and yellow lines radiate from a point on the bottom left continent.
Posted inNews

Mounds of Ancient Ocean Floor May Be Hiding Deep in Earth

Tim Hornyak, Science Writer by Tim Hornyak 13 June 20234 August 2023

A mysterious seismic feature at the bottom of Earth’s mantle is more widespread than previously thought.

Image depicting Viscosity estimates for the mantle underneath Greenland.
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4D Viscosity Constraints from Greenland 

by Thorsten Becker 28 March 202311 April 2023

The mantle’s resistance to flow appears different for glacial and plate tectonic timescales but this behavior can be reconciled with new thermo-mechanical models of the asthenosphere.

一个球形海底地震仪下降到海面
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小尺度对流搅动大洋岩石圈

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 6 March 20236 March 2023

海底扩张将岩石圈矿物组织成一个晶格,但小规模的对流混杂在最内层。

Photo of a rock outcrop
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The Seven-Ages of Earth as Seen Through the Continental Lens

by Peter A. Cawood and Priyadarshi Chowdhury 24 February 202320 June 2024

The 4.5-billion-year record contained in Earth’s continental crust reveals a seven-phase evolution, from an initial magma ocean to the present-day environment in which we live.

An orb-shaped ocean bottom seismometer descending into the sea surface
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Small-Scale Convection Shuffles the Oceanic Lithosphere

Sarah Derouin, Science Writer by Sarah Derouin 21 February 20238 July 2024

Seafloor spreading organized lithospheric minerals into a lattice, but small-scale convection jumbled up the innermost layer.

Diagram showing the reaction process between carbonatite melt and harzburgite mantle rock.
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Why is the North China Craton Vulnerable to Destruction?

by Sujoy Ghosh 20 October 202218 October 2022

A new study suggests that carbonatite metasomatism, not silicate metasomatism as previously thought, was dominant prior to the removal of the North China Craton in the early Cretaceous.

Different scenarios influencing plate thickness
Posted inEditors' Highlights

Frequency Dependent Plates

by Thorsten W. Becker 16 October 202030 September 2022

Rocks stretch, break, and flow, depending on how and under which conditions they are loaded. A new formulation to better capture Earth’s rheology is explored in the context of plate thickness.

A plot showing the calculated ranges of temperature and strain rate at which earthquakes occur, based on the depth range of earthquakes recorded by local networks of land or ocean bottom seismometers
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Strain Rate: The Overlooked Control on Earthquake Depth

by R. E. Abercrombie and J. Escartin 20 August 20201 October 2021

Regional strain rate may play as significant a role as temperature in governing the depth distribution of earthquakes in mantle lithosphere.

Figuring showing thickness of the crust in the High Arctic and Circum-Arctic regions
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Revealing the Arctic Crust

by Claudio Faccenna 25 July 201924 March 2023

A new model, ArcCRUST, reveals with unprecedent resolution the geometry and the thermal state of the oceanic crust of the High Arctic and Circum-Arctic domain.

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