Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.
Researchers proposed a “potential oxygen fugacity” parameter to directly compare the fO 2 characteristics of melts formed at different depths. The oxygen fugacity (fO 2) of the mantle controls the ...
Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same. A ...