Now, researchers at the Heriot-Watt University have traced its formation event using 117-million-year-old “underwater mud ...

The changes in ocean chemistry were gradual. The Archaean period lasted 1.5 billion years. This is more than half of Earth’s ...

Previous research showed they contained enough hydrogen to account for the formation of Earth’s oceans, but it identified the location of only about 20 percent of the hydrogen in these meteorites.

Furthermore, this work reveals that the formation of a basal magma ocean was inevitable on Earth, even under the most unfavorable conditions. Additionally, the geochemical imprint of this ...

The reason Earth's oceans may have looked different in the ... importance of a type of rock deposit known as the banded iron formation in recording the planet's history. Rain falling on ...

The deep blue sea may not have always been so blue. A new study suggests that the Earth's oceans may have changed color over time and could change again in the future, depending on the chemical ...

The reason Earth's oceans may have looked different in the ... importance of a type of rock deposit known as the banded iron formation in recording the planet's history. Banded iron formations ...