Key Features and Characteristics of the Continental Crust
The continental crust is the layer of Earth’s crust that makes up the continents. The geological continents and the shallow seafloor at their shores, known…
Geography
Massive Ice Loss from the Greenland Glacier
Ground-based measuring instruments and aircraft radar in Greenland’s far northeast reveal how much ice is being lost by the 79° N Glacier. According to observations…
Scientists Investigate Complicated Patterns of Tipping Points in the Atlantic’s Current System
An international team of scientists has advised against depending on nature to provide simple ‘early warning’ indicators of a climate calamity, citing new mathematical modeling…
Ice Cores give the Earliest Proof of Fast Antarctic Ice Loss in History
Researchers discovered the first concrete evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet shrank abruptly and dramatically toward the end of the Last Ice Age, some…
Mercury Rising – Study gives new information on Environmental Consequences of Ancient Volcanoes
Massive volcanic eruptions in Earth’s history that emitted large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere are usually associated with periods of severe environmental change and…
Oceanic Crust
Oceanic crust is the outermost layer of Earth’s lithosphere that sits underneath the ocean basins. It is the top layer of the oceanic part of…
Climate and Rock Weathering – the Biggest Carbon Sinks are Low-lying Mountain Ranges
For hundreds of millions of years, the average temperature of Earth’s surface has fluctuated by little more than 20° Celsius, allowing life to thrive on…
The Gibraltar arc is moving Westward from the Mediterranean into the Atlantic
The oceans are constantly changing, most of the time over millions of years. Researchers from Portugal’s Universidade de Lisboa and Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz…
A New Geological Study reveals that Scandinavia originated in Greenland
A new geological study claims that the oldest Scandinavian bedrock was ‘born’ in Greenland. The study explains how continents formed and why Earth is the…
Mid-ocean Ridge (MOR)
A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system created by plate tectonics. It is a massive undersea mountain range that spans the world’s oceans.…
New Detecting System Tries to Warn about Landslides and Tsunamis
Researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks have developed a method for remotely detecting massive landslides within minutes of their occurrence and determining whether they…
Oceanic Trenches
Oceanic trenches are long, narrow, and very deep depressions in the ocean floor. They are the deepest sections of the Earth’s oceans, generated mostly by…
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