#Geologists shed light on the Tibetan Plateau origin puzzle: an open-and-shut perspective

“#Geologists shed light on the Tibetan Plateau origin puzzle: an open-and-shut perspective” Scientists unraveled part of the mystery surrounding the complex geological structures of the southern Tibetan Plateau Credit: Earth Science Frontiers Earth’s geographical surfaces formed over millions of years, and various theories aim to explain their formation. The most popular theory, called plate tectonics,…

Read More

#Artificial intelligence could revolutionize sea ice warnings

“#Artificial intelligence could revolutionize sea ice warnings” Sea ice in the polar sea. Credit: Jørn Berger-Nyvoll, UiT Today, large resources are used to provide vessels in the polar seas with warnings about the spread of sea ice. Artificial intelligence may make these warnings cheaper, faster, and available for everyone. For vessels that journey into the…

Read More

#Natural fluid injections triggered Cahuilla earthquake swarm

“#Natural fluid injections triggered Cahuilla earthquake swarm” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A naturally occurring injection of underground fluids drove a four-year-long earthquake swarm near Cahuilla, California, according to a new seismological study that utilizes advances in earthquake monitoring with a machine-learning algorithm. In contrast to mainshock/aftershock sequences, where a large earthquake is followed by many…

Read More

#Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth’s surface with 3-D images

“#Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth’s surface with 3-D images” UT Dallas geoscientists used earthquake data and a computationally intensive technique called a full waveform inversion to create 3D images of the geometry of subducting slabs (green bodies) and induced mantle flows (yellow arrows) under Central America and the Caribbean Sea at a…

Read More

#Tiny sand grains trigger massive glacial surges

“#Tiny sand grains trigger massive glacial surges” A surging glacier in the St. Elias Mountains, Canada. Credit: Gwenn Flowers About 10 percent of the Earth’s land mass is covered in glaciers, most of which slip slowly across the land over years, carving fjords and trailing rivers in their wake. But about 1 percent of glaciers…

Read More

#Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth’s core

“#Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth’s core” Earthquakes send sound waves through the Earth. Seismograms record the echoes as those waves travel along the core-mantle boundary, diffracting and bending around dense rock structures. New research from University of Maryland provides the first broad view of these structures, revealing them to be much more widespread…

Read More