This unique location provides scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to study the birth of an ocean in real-time, offering insights into how Earth's continents and oceans have formed throughout ...

an enduring question in the study of Earth's history. The scientists report in the journal Nature that the continents may not have emerged from Earth's oceans as stable landmasses, the hallmark of ...

2024 — A 'tag-team' between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated marine life and altered the course of evolution on Earth, according to a new study. Scientists say a string ...

Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved great distances ... which are called strata. The study of strata is called stratigraphy, and using a few basic principles ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

A new study published in the journal One Earth explores how marine biodiversity conservation, human health and wellbeing are ...

A study published in the journal One Earth explores ... plan's "30x30" target (which aims to protect 30% of the world's land and oceans by 2030), it's important to know how this will affect ...

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

These temperature swings were more intense in the past, and the oscillation occurred even when the continents were in different places than they are now, according to the study, which appears the ...

The study sheds light on how these arcs have ... which have varied due to changes in the amount of strontium put into the oceans from the continents (radiogenic) versus the mantle (unradiogenic).

She is also lead author of a new study describing the S2 impact and what ... and archaea,” Drabon wrote in an email. “The oceans likely contained some life, but not as much as today in part ...

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