«Rust under pressure could
explain deep Earth anomalies.»
But the chondrite signatures are too heavy to
explain the deep Earth samples, Hallis says.
Not exact matches
Now researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder have proposed a new way to
explain the uplift: Water trapped
deep below
Earth's crust may have flooded the lower crust, creating buoyancy and lift.
Green
explained that at 300 - 700 kilometers depth, the pressure and temperature are so high that rocks in this
deep interior of the planet can not break by the brittle processes seen on
Earth's surface.
Because such shifts in olivine change the structure of
earth's subducted lithosphere, the new phase transition mechanism could help
explain the origins of some
deep earthquakes.
New research on oxygen and iron chemistry under the extreme conditions found
deep inside
Earth could
explain a longstanding seismic mystery called ultralow velocity zones.
«Pools of free oxygen under these conditions could create many reactions and chemical phases, which might be responsible for seismic and geochemical signatures of the
deep Earth,» Mao
explained.
For the research team, one of the most - exciting aspects of this finding is the potential of a reservoir of oxygen
deep in the planet's interior, which if periodically released to the
Earth's surface could significantly alter the
Earth's early atmosphere, potentially
explaining the dramatic increase in atmospheric oxygen that occurred about 2.4 billion years ago according to the geologic record.
The competing theories are (there was / is no theory competition) are: 1) The «late veneer theory» (the late veneer theory is connected with the fossil fuel theory, where a tiny amount of CO2 is recycled in the upper mantle) vs / or 2) The
deep core CH4 theory (See the late Nobel prize winnings, Astrophysics» Thomas Gold's book «Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels», where there is a large continuous input of CH4 and CO2 into the biosphere from CH4 that is extrude from the core of the earth as it solidifies, which explains Humlum et al's CO2 phase analysis result paradox and roughly 50 different geological paradoxes / anomalies) as to the origin of the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and «natural» gas / crude
deep core CH4 theory (See the late Nobel prize winnings, Astrophysics» Thomas Gold's book «
Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels», where there is a large continuous input of CH4 and CO2 into the biosphere from CH4 that is extrude from the core of the earth as it solidifies, which explains Humlum et al's CO2 phase analysis result paradox and roughly 50 different geological paradoxes / anomalies) as to the origin of the earth's atmosphere, oceans, and «natural» gas / crude
Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels», where there is a large continuous input of CH4 and CO2 into the biosphere from CH4 that is extrude from the core of the
earth as it solidifies, which
explains Humlum et al's CO2 phase analysis result paradox and roughly 50 different geological paradoxes / anomalies) as to the origin of the
earth's atmosphere, oceans, and «natural» gas / crude oil.
There is no way that some calculation involving the radiation fluxes among Sun,
Earth, and GHGs can
explain Trenberth's «missing heat» in the
deep oceans.