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Salvatore Allegra / AP

How plate tectonics, mountains and deep‑sea sediments have maintained Earth’s ‘Goldilocks’ climate

Dietmar Müller, University of Sydney; Adriana Dutkiewicz, University of Sydney; Andrew Merdith, University of Leeds; Ben Mather, University of Sydney; Christopher Gonzalez, The University of Western Australia; Sabin Zahirovic, University of Sydney; Tobias Keller, ETH Zurich; Weronika Gorczyk, The University of Western Australia, and Jo Condon, The University of Melbourne

New modelling shows how tectonic plate movements, carbon-rich deep-sea sediment, and mountain weathering have regulated Earth’s climate.
Earth’s interior 80 million years ago with hot structures in yellow to red (darker is shallower) and cold structures in blue (darker is deeper). Ömer Bodur/Nature

Volcanoes, diamonds, and blobs: a billion‑year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought

Nicolas Flament, University of Wollongong; Andrew Merdith, University of Leeds; Ömer F. Bodur, University of Wollongong, and Simon Williams, Northwest University, Xi'an

Ancient blobs deep inside the Earth gather together and break apart like continents, according to new research.

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