IntroductionWe often think of volcanoes as skyscraping marvels, but these portals to the geologic underworld also reside underwater. Unfortunately, submarine volcanoes are trickier to...
Researchers in Australia have discovered that a type of diamond called lonsdaleite can exist independently of normal diamond in a rare type of meteorite....
The rate at which Earth’s continental crust builds up goes through cycles, peaking around every 200 million years when the solar system travels through...
A study of Antarctic ice shelves suggests that the ice shell covering Jupiter’s moon Europa could contain a significant amount of underwater “snow”. This...