15-05-04 University of Sydney geoscientists have helped prove that some of the ocean's underwater volcanoes did not erupt from hot spots in Earth's mantle but instead formed from cracks or fractures in the oceanic crust. The discovery helps explain the spect...

13-12-06 Researchers from the University of Southampton have identified regions beneath the oceans where the igneous rocks（火成岩） of the upper ocean crust could safely store very large volumes of carbon dioxide. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal, o...

13-06-28 Arizona State University researchers have discovered for the first time that temperature determines where key soil microbes can thrive -- microbes that are critical to forming topsoil（表层土） crusts in arid lands. And of concern, the scientists pr...

13-06-16 They lie dormant（冬眠，休止） for years, but at the first sign of favorable conditions they awaken. This sounds like the tagline（标语） for a science fiction movie, but it describes the amazing life-cycles of microbial organisms that form the biol...

12-04-01 Two new studies into the plumbing systems that lie under volcanoes could bring scientists closer to predicting large eruptions. International teams of researchers, led by the University of Leeds, studied the location and behaviour of magma（岩浆） c...

11-08-11 The recycling of Earth's crust（外壳） in volcanoes happens much faster than scientists have previously assumed. Rock of the oceanic crust, which sinks deep into the earth due to the movement of tectonic plates（构造板块） , reemerges through volcan...

11-04-07 For many years, most scientists studying Tibet have thought that a very hot and very weak lower and middle crust underlies its plateau, flowing like a fluid. Now, a team of researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is questioni...

10-06-03 If tectonic plate（地壳构造板块 ） collisions cause volcanic eruptions, as every fifth grader knows, why do some volcanoes erupt far from a plate boundary? A study in Nature suggests that volcanoes and mountains in the Mediterranean can grow from th...