Image: Tiny crystals called zircons are used to date oceanic crust. A newly developed method that detects tiny bits of zircon in rock reliably predicts the age of ocean crust more than 99 percent of ...

The Earth's oceanic crust covers an enormous expanse, and is mostly buried beneath a thick layer of mud that cuts it off from the surface world. Scientists now document life deep within the oceanic ...

Professor YAO Huajian's research group from the School of Earth and Space Sciences of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in cooperation with Dr. Piero Poli from Grenoble-Alpes ...

Learn about the swelled-up structure beneath Bermuda, where a thick layer of buoyant rock may be holding up oceanic crust.

Figure 1: The variation of the transformed volume fraction with duration at the desired temperature. Figure 2: Transmission electron micrographs showing microstructures of the reaction zone in the ...

Figure 2: Geologic cross-sections and layer 2A event picks. As expected, the imaging environment is poor at the scarp edge and we cannot image the layer 2A event at the exact locations of the ...

For the first time, scientists have discovered microbes living deep inside Earth’s oceanic crust — the dark volcanic rock at the bottom of the sea. This crust is several kilometers thick and covers 60 ...

Earth's middle layer is chunky, like peanuts in a sea of caramel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In Geology 101, Earth's ...

Deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle, a colossal stone structure has been unearthed, challenging everything we thought we knew about this mysterious region.

Bermuda is an island remnant of a volcano active 30-35 million years ago. However, it lacks the familiar features of other volcanic islands. Seismic waves reveal a unique structure that two scientists ...

A newly developed method that detects tiny bits of zircon in rock reliably predicts the age of ocean crust more than 99 percent of the time, making the technique the most accurate so far. After ...