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The Energy Budget of Earthquakes

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Seismic Wave Travel Paths , Fabio CRAMERI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link MIT geologists discover where energy goes during an earthquake   (Jennifer CHU, MIT News ; September 16, 2025) https://news.mit.edu/2025/mit-geologists-discover-where-energy-goes-during-earthquake-0916 Featured Research Article: “Lab-Quakes”: Quantifying the Complete Energy Budget of High-Pressure Laboratory Failure (ORTEGA-ARROYO et al. , 2025) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025AV001683

Why is Earth's Inner Core Solid?

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Hand drawn layers of the Earth , Pikisuperstar;  Freepik Hidden chemistry of Earth's core revealed by how it froze (News Release, University of Oxford ; 4 September 2025) https://www.earth.ox.ac.uk/article/hidden-chemistry-earths-core-revealed-how-it-froze Featured Research Article: Constraining Earth's core composition from inner core nucleation (WILSON et al. , 2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62841-4 Dynamo Theory - Outer Core Convection and Magnetic field generation , Andrew Z. COLVIN ; CC BY-SA 4.0 International , Link

Ancient Volcanic Mountain Chain in Supercontinent Rodinia discover beneath South China

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Rodinia Missing Link,  CAWOOD  et al. , 2013;  CC BY-SA 4.0 International ,  Link 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath China (Aubrey Zerkle, LiveScience ; July 29, 2025) https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/volcanos/400-mile-long-chain-of-fossilized-volcanoes-discovered-beneath-china Featured Research Article: A-700-km-Long Fossil Tonian Magmatic Arc Belt Hidden within the Yangtze Block Interior, South China (GU et al ., 2025) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhidong-Gu-3/publication/393165783_A_700-km-Long_Fossil_Tonian_Magmatic_Arc_Belt_Hidden_Within_the_Yangtze_Block%27s_Interior_South_China/links/68637ed339c358351205b38d/A-700-km-Long-Fossil-Tonian-Magmatic-Arc-Belt-Hidden-Within-the-Yangtze-Blocks-Interior-South-China.pdf Also... Archaen geodynamics:  Ephemeral supercontinents or long-lived supercratons? (LIU et al. , 2021) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article/49/7/794/595625/Archean-geodynamics-Ephemeral...

Earth Overshoot Day 2025 - Natural Resources Limit for Humankind reached on July 24, 2025

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Earth Overshoot Day Reaches Record for Earliest Date (Paige BENNETT, EcoWatch ; July 28, 2025) https://www.ecowatch.com/earth-overshoot-day-2025.html Earth Overshoot Day 2025 falls on July 24 (Press Release, Global Footprint Network ; June 5, 2025) https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/press-release-june-2025-english/ Country Overshoot Days 2025 https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/newsroom/country-overshoot-days/

Industrial Waste into Rock within Decades - The Anthropoclastic Rock Cycle

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( OWEN et al. , 2025; University of Glascow ) Industrial waste is turning to rock in just decades, research reveals  (University News Release, University of Glasgow ; 28/4/2025) https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_1173682_en.html Cumbrian coast research shows industrial waste turns into rock in decades - BBC News (29/4/2025) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c86j2x4d29lo.amp Featured Research Article Evidence for a rapid anthropoclastic rock cycle (OWEN et al. , 2025) https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/53/7/581/653591/Evidence-for-a-rapid-anthropoclastic-rock-cycle N. B.:   Abstract and Supplementary Materials only. Evidence for a Rapid Anthropoclastic Rock Cycle * (OWEN et al. , 2025) https://eprints.gla.ac.uk/353367/1/353367.pdf (*) = Pre-Print! Slag Stone (circa 1900) , Kvarnen ;  CC BY-SA 3.0 , Link