Earth’s surface tells a complex story, shaped not only by visible forces like tectonics and erosion but also by hidden mantle ...

The hidden chemistry of the Earth’s interior may play a far more dramatic role in shaping continents than previously imagined ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

The carbon cycle, upon which most living things depend ... forming fluids incorporated basaltic components from oceanic lithosphere that had descended into the lower mantle, the researchers ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS ...

takes part in the carbon cycle on the planetary surface. Carbon is continually transferred between Earth’s lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere. Many marine organisms ...

The findings describe a previously unknown part of the geological carbon cycle in transform faults ... atmosphere, and lithosphere." Klein adds that "this is before anthropogenic combustion ...

Earth’s lithosphere (its crust and upper mantle ... This tectonic activity also plays an important role in the carbon cycle, the processes in which carbon is released and reabsorbed in the ...

Conversely, under hotter, plume-influenced conditions, the carbonatite melts tend to oxidize the surrounding mantle, which weakens the lithosphere ... such as carbon, cycle between Earth's surface ...