Geology

Doomsday Glacier Bigger Than Florida Might Break Off In The Next Few Years, Warn Scientists

Melting glacier. credit: iStock/ fredtamashiroThe Thwaites Glacier is holding onto Antarctica's ice sheet by its fingernails, and the globe might see significant changes over the next year or two, researchers have alerted in a recently released study, CNN reported.As the world warms, giant sheets of ice near the poles have been melting off. Previously...

Crucial Proof Explains Anomalously Fast Convergence Between India And Asia In Mesozoic

The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016. Credit: European Space Agency. Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data [2016]/ processed by ESA ,CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO/Wikimedia CommonsClosure of the Neo-Tethys Sea and the subsequent formation...

UK Drought: Getting Used to Strange Vegetables

Credit: UnsplashSpecialists say that vegetables and fruit in stores will be smaller and look different as the summer's hot and dry climate impacts crops.Carrots, Potatoes, Brussels sprouts, apples, and onions are prone to be the most affected.Several locations of the UK have seen extremely low rain in 2022, and parts of England remain in...

Deep-Sea Surveys Reveal Thousands of Mystery Holes on the Seafloor

Thousands of mysterious holes have been discovered on the ocean floor not far from the Californian coast.Thousands of secret holes have been found on the seafloor after deep-sea surveys.The Earth's oceans are anything, however, explored. According to reports, humans have managed to explore regarding 5% of the ocean floor. The remaining 95% of the...

Giant Diamonds Might Hold the Key to Superdeep Earthquakes

According to most geophysical models, earthquakes should not happen more than 300 kilometers beneath Earth's surface. However, they commonly do, an event that has confounded seismologists for years.Imperfections such as the inclusions (dark flecks) in this diamond reveal that tectonic slabs can carry water deep into Earth's mantle. EVAN SMITH/© 2021 GIAResearchers suggest...

The Earth’s Turns Far Under Our Feet: A New Research Reveals the Inner Core Oscillates

Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth’s inner core oscillates, contradicting previously held beliefs that it consistently rotates at a faster rate than the planet’s surface.A groundbreaking study by USC researchers challenges the previous model that the Earth's inner core rotates continuously faster than the planet's surface.According to their research, published in Science Advances,...

Tiny Magnetic Waves Have Actually Been Found in Earth’s Core

Layout revealing wave-like circulation at the surface of Earth's external core as well as the history of magnetic field linesFelix GerickVariations in Earth's magnetic field that repeat every 7 years can be made use of to penetrate the inner functions of our worldTiny magnetic waves discovered in the Earth's core can aid illuminate what...

Meteorites on Mars

NASA's Mars Rovers Are the leading Meteorite Hunters in the Solar System!Lebanon Meteorite: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover discovered this huge meteorite, called "Lebanon" on July 15th, 2014. It is an iron meteorite about two meters wide. A small piece of the meteorite, called "Lebanon B", can be seen in the foreground. The angular cavities...

Fundamental Types of Opal: Precious, Common, Fire and More

There are many sorts of Opal, and also a wide array of names are made use of to connect concerning them. If you have spent a percentage of time considering the Opal, you have probably been shocked by this substantial vocabulary of lovely names. There is a logic behind fire opal, black Opal,...