Earth sciences
For everyone
The fields that study the Earth's structure, age, rocks, oceans, atmosphere and climate. The age of the Earth and the movement of the continents have been among the field's most debated questions.
For specialists
Geochronology relies on radiometric decay systems (U–Pb, K–Ar, Rb–Sr). Plate tectonics holds that the crust is made of plates moving over the mantle, and explains earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building within that framework.
Claims
- Radiometric dating relies on unstable isotopes in rocks decaying at known rates.[1]
Connections
New research in this branch
Notable in peer-reviewed journals
- Mean-Field Limit of Non-exchangeable Multi-agent Systems Over Hypergraphs with Unbounded Rank — Nathalie Ayi, Nastassia Pouradier Duteil, David Poyato · 2026-10-23 · Journal of Nonlinear Science
- The Upper Jurassic invertebrate faunas of Cape Leslie, Milne Land. I. Oxfordian and Lower Kimmeridgian — Spath, Leonard Frank · 2026-10-12 · Meddelelser om Grønland
- The Upper Jurassic invertebrate faunas of Cape Leslie, Milne Land. II. Upper Kimmeridgian and Portlandian — Spath, Leonard Frank · 2026-10-12 · Meddelelser om Grønland
- Detrital zircon geochronology of Mesoproterozoic rocks at Strathgordon, Tyennan Domain, Tasmania — I. A. Port, Sébastien Meffre, RF Berry et al. · 2026-10-03 · Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
Preprints (may not be peer-reviewed yet)
- Adaptive Seismic Inversion in Piecewise Smooth Media Using Whiteness-based Alternating Directions — Lian Zhao, Kamal Aghazade, Ali Gholami et al. · 2026-10-29 · arXiv
- Advance identification of where the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake would begin — K. Z. Nanjo, J. B. Rundle, D. Iwata et al. · 2026-10-29 · arXiv
- Magma Buoyancy Couples Lunar Mantle Convection and Magmatism: Long-Lasting Mare Volcanism and Radius Change in a 3-D Regional Model — Ken'yo U, Masanori Kameyama, Takatoshi Yanagisawa et al. · 2026-10-29 · arXiv
- From extreme weather to agricultural consequences with agentic AI — Minghan Yu, Mengyu Dai, Yixin Wen et al. · 2026-10-29 · arXiv
Sources
- Book (1991). The Age of the Earth. Stanford University Press
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APA
Athena contributors. (2026). Earth sciences. Athena: The tree of human knowledge. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://latifkedi.github.io/athena/en/d/yer-bilimleri/
BibTeX
@misc{athena_yer_bilimleri,
title = {Earth sciences},
author = {{Athena contributors}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://latifkedi.github.io/athena/en/d/yer-bilimleri/}},
note = {Athena: The tree of human knowledge. Accessed: 2026-11-01}
}Added: September 27, 2026 · Last changed: September 27, 2026 · Page history