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Early Earth was bombarded by meteors which played a crucial role in disrupting and recycling Earth’s first crust.

Early Earth’s first crust composition discovery rewrites geological timeline

April 9, 2025

Artistic view of Earth’s interior during mantle solidification in the first hundreds of millions of years of Earth’s history. Gravitational segregation of dense, iron-rich magma (in orange) likely formed a basal magma ocean atop the core, that can explain the present-day structure of the lower mantle.

Earliest days of Earth’s formation

The near surface of the inner core may be changing. (USC Graphic/Edward Sotelo)

Earth’s inner core is undergoing a transformation

Schematic representation of the process of subduction of tectonic plates and of a mantle plume rising from an LLSVP. In the latter, the mineral grains are larger than those in the subducted plates.

Earth’s mantle reveals hidden treasures

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New simulation method sharpens our view into Earth’s interior

Earth from space: A gush of volcanic gas

September 17, 2011

Team debunks theory on end of ‘Snowball Earth’ ice age

September 17, 2011

Newly discovered natural arch in Afghanistan one of world’s largest

September 17, 2011

Ground-based lasers vie with satellites to map Earth’s magnetic field

September 15, 2011

Earth’s hot past: Prologue to future climate?

September 15, 2011

Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?

September 15, 2011

First measurement of magnetic field in Earth’s core

September 15, 2011

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