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The floormen (in yellow jackets) and drillers (in white booths in background) of Expedition 383 retrieve core barrels and sediment cores around the clock. Credit: Jenny Middleton/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

How a drilling ship pulls cores from 2.5 miles below the...

Zermatt in the Western Alps.

More ‘reactive’ land surfaces cooled the Earth down

Earth

Building blocks of the Earth

Canadian Rocky Mountains

Study provides new insight into origin of Canadian Rockies

The comet 46P/Wirtanen on January 3, 2019.

A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of...

The rising Earth from the perspective of the moon.

Formation of the moon brought water to Earth

Ammonium fertilized early life on Earth

A mineral map of a cumulate mineral sample.

How Earth’s mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting

Bermuda has a unique volcanic past. About 30 million years ago, a disturbance in the mantle’s transition zone supplied the magma to form the now-dormant volcanic foundation on which the island sits.

From Earth’s deep mantle, scientists find a new way volcanoes form

Subsidence in Tuscany

Monitoring Earth’s shifting land

Credit: Density values from LithoRef18 (Afonso et al.) and gravity gradients from Bouman et al. (2016)

3D Earth in the making

Subduction Zone - Earth

How life on Earth affected its inner workings

A laser-heated diamond anvil cell is used to simulate the pressure and temperature conditions of Earth's core.

What does Earth’s core have in common with salad dressing?

Polynya

Uncovering Polynya : Research unravels 43-year-old mystery in deep Antarctica

diamonds formed from oceanic crust

Eclogitic diamonds formed from oceanic crust

Everest

Nepal expedition to remeasure height of Everest

Rocks with banded iron formations and biosignatures - 1,900 million years old, Michigan, US (top left), 2,700 million years old, Ontario, Canada (bottom left) and 2,500 million years old, Karijini National Park, Western Australia (right).

Tracking records of the oldest life forms on Earth

Deep below the Earth in the Tonga-Fiji region of the South Pacific, one enormous earthquake triggered another.

Massive earthquakes provide new insight into deep Earth

Graphite & Hexagonal Diamond

Cool Earth theory sheds more light on diamonds

Cross-sections of Earth’s mantle down to 1,400 km depth showing changes in its flow as ancient ocean beds fall into Earth’s deep interior.

Earth’s deep mantle flows dynamically

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