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Researchers may have found a new way to locate deposits of rare earth elements that are vital to the tech and energy industries. Rare earth elements crystallize in Earth's mantle inside blobs of magma ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland. This area is the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, which move apart ~ 2.5 cm/year. Subduction and the formation of continents, a ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to locating the rare earth elements needed for modern technologies and the ...

Sophisticated analysis of tiny bubbles of ancient gas trapped in volcanic rocks, combined with new geophysical modeling, has cast new light on long-held assumptions about the deep Earth. An ...

We have compared the four temporal modes of the gravity field with the six temporal modes of the magnetic field one by one. The main principal components of the core magnetic and gravity signals ...

For Australia, one of the world’s largest mining nations, that dynamic has meant exporting raw materials while much of the ...