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Their model estimates that it took Earth 500 million years to neutralize ocean acidity enough to support life. While pockets ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

As the process continued, the descending oceanic plate functions like an anchor, dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of ...

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