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沿海岸测量海平面上升

by David Shultz 3 January 20223 January 2022

科学家们绘制了一幅陆地垂直运动全球地图,展示了陆地相对于地球海平面上升的运动变化。

A dam impounds a large reservoir (background) as seen from a stone fort (foreground).
Posted inNews

A Monsoon-Filled Reservoir Might Have Nudged a Fault to Fail

by Maria Rose 16 December 202116 December 2021

New research examines whether a sudden increase in water loading in Pakistan’s Mangla Dam might have been connected to the 2019 New Mirpur earthquake.

Artist’s rendering of Earth’s magnetic field, which connects the North Pole with the South Pole
Posted inNews

Oldest Pole Reversal Shows Early Earth Was Well Suited for Life

by Zack Savitsky 15 December 202115 December 2021

Australian rocks 3.25 billion years old preserved the oldest signs of Earth’s stable magnetic field and quickly moving crust, critical elements of life’s evolution.

An image of the aftermath of the magnitude 9.2 Great Alaska earthquake in 1964
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Rock Structure Explains Slow Seismic Waves

by Jack Lee 7 December 20217 December 2021

New findings contrast with a prevailing hypothesis for low seismic velocity in subduction zones.

A comparison between (left) earthquake motion derived from daily geodetic observations (blue arrows) and the approach of Golriz et al. (red arrows) and (right )the net difference between these methods.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Improving Coseismic Slip Measurements

by Morgan Rehnberg 29 November 202111 May 2022

A physics-based method estimates the duration of earthquakes’ coseismic phase and can help improve the precision of coseismic slip models and magnitude estimates.

Image of metamorphic rocks that are found in subduction zones
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Unearthing the Cause of Slow Seismic Waves in Subduction Zones

by Sarah Derouin 9 November 202118 January 2022

Researchers look to the fossil rock record to unearth the driving forces for variable seismic speed through subduction zones.

Photograph of the Sheep Mountain Anticline.
Posted inEditors' Vox

The Birth, Growth, and Death of Continents

by Rixiang Zhu, Guochun Zhao, Wenjiao Xiao, Ling Chen and Yanjie Tang 28 October 202128 January 2022

There are various explanations for how the Earth’s continents form, develop, and change but challenges remain in fully understanding the driving forces behind plate tectonics on our planet.

A view of Balboa Pier in California.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Measuring Sea Level Rise Along the Coast

by David Shultz 25 October 20213 January 2022

Scientists created a global map of vertical land motion to show how the solid ground is moving relative to the planet’s rising seas.

Dense green pine trees form the foreground. Gray rocks forming low-relief hills are in the middle distance, dotted with green trees, with a hazy blue sky in the background.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Extinct Style of Plate Tectonics Explains Early Earth’s Flat Mountains

by Rebecca Dzombak 7 October 202117 November 2021

The geologic record suggests that despite Earth’s hot, thin crust during the Proterozoic, mountains were still able to form thanks to an extinct style of crustal deformation.

Two world maps with colored dots and stars denoting maximum mantle temperatures retrieved by the RevPET algorithm for the basaltic melts from the global submarine mid-ocean ridge system.
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A Novel Thermobarometer to Infer Mantle Melting Conditions

by S. Straub 16 September 202110 November 2021

The algorithm RevPET automatically reverses the complex multi-phase fractional crystallization path of oceanic basalts and offers new perspectives for advancing mantle thermobarometry.

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