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Plate tectonics—mineral olivine found crucial for heat transport in the mantle
Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and ...
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The Pacific Tectonic Plate ‘Pontus’ Has Been Found—It’s Been Missing for 160 Million Years!
Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...
Geologists suggest early continents formed through mantle plumes, not plate collisions
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
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The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission: Observing Terrestrial Surface Water and Oceanic Submesoscale Eddies - IEEE Xplore
The elevation of the ocean surface has been measured for over two decades from spaceborne altimeters. However, existing altimeter measurements are not adequate to characterize the dynamic variations ...