Researchers at Göttingen University have uncovered new evidence that some of Earth’s most precious metals began their journey far deeper than once thought. Working with volcanic rocks from ocean ...

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Earth's core is rich with gold, and it's leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found. A new study of isotopes found in the volcanic rock that oozed out from deep under ...

New research suggests that Venus could be much more geologically active than previously thought. A groundbreaking study by Viatcheslav S. Solomatov and Chhavi Jain proposes that Venus’ crust may be ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington University in ...

In the upper two panels show modelling results of the contamination of depleted mantle (DM, yellow stars) by (1) serpentinite-derived fluids, and by (2) fluids derived from the slab crust materials.