These discoveries challenge our understanding of underwater dynamics and suggest that vast portions of the oceanic crust could harbor complex life ... Cross-section of a lobate lava flow formed by ...

The Meng Xiang China first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel with a maximum drilling depth of 11 ...

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is moving toward Russia. Rating: True (About this rating?) In mid-November 2024, several news ...

GUANGZHOU, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Meng Xiang, China's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel with a maximum drilling depth of 11 kilometers was officially commissioned in ...

GUANGZHOU, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Meng Xiang, China's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel with a maximum drilling depth of 11 kilometers was officially commissioned in ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

"The deep-earth core samples it retrieves will provide global scientists with direct evidence to study plate tectonics, oceanic ... Beneath the crust lies the mantle, a crucial layer linking ...

There are a number of hypotheses, including that they are piles of oceanic crust that have accumulated over ... (40,230ft), but that doesn’t even come close to breaking through the crust to the layers ...

In a historic milestone for marine and geological sciences, China officially commissioned the Meng Xiang, the nation’s first ...

An aerial drone photo shows the Meng Xiang, China's first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, in ...

"The deep-earth core samples it retrieves will provide global scientists with direct evidence to study plate tectonics, oceanic ... the Earth's crust, which averages 15 kilometers in thickness.

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle ... of Fire" that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. When two oceanic plates converge, a deep trench forms, such as ...