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Material from the Earth’s core has been leaking into the mantle through activity that led to volcanic eruptions such as that helped form the Hawaiian islands. EPA/Bruce Omori/Paradise Helicopters

July 10, 2019

Earth’s core has been leaking for billions of years

Hanika Rizo, Carleton University; David Murphy, Queensland University of Technology, and Denis Andrault, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)

New findings suggest the core has been leaking for the past 2.5 billion years, and that could help scientists understand how the core was formed.

In the field studying the rock association in the Doolena Gap greenstone belt, 30 km north of Marble bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. David Murphy

April 16, 2018

How the Pilbara was formed more than 3 billion years ago

David Murphy, Queensland University of Technology; Charlotte Allen, Queensland University of Technology; Christoph Schrank, Queensland University of Technology, and Daniel Wiemer, The University of Western Australia

The remote Pilbara region of Western Australian formed many billions of years ago when the Earth was much hotter and the crust softer than it is today.

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