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Oct 9, 2024 · Researchers studying hydrothermal vents in the depths of the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench have found tiny inorganic structures performing energy conversions associated with life.
6 days ago · My cultural immersion made me a better researcher. I now see cross-cultural collaborations as a way to overcome communication barriers that can hinder progress in science. By stepping outside my comfort zone, I gained the confidence to pivot my research in new directions that I might have otherwise boxed myself out of.
5 days ago · It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of topics, including ocean currents, waves, and geophysical fluid dynamics; fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the ocean and across its boundaries; ecosystem dynamics; and plate tectonics and seabed geology.
Oct 1, 2024 · The overriding plate scrapes sediments and elevated portions of ocean floor off the upper crust of the lower plate, creating a zone of highly deformed rocks within the trench that becomes attached, or accreted, to the overriding plate.
Sep 23, 2024 · The learning activities included showing native culture, exploring foreign cultural experiences, reflecting on cultural disparities, sharing intercultural insights, and engaging in online discussions with paired counterparts.
Sep 30, 2024 · During this period, cultural geographers started to engage with new theoretical ideas within social theory, including humanism, structuralism, post-structuralism, postmodernism, and post-colonialism, recasting cultural geography in a number of significant ways.
Oct 1, 2024 · If both plates are oceanic, as in the western Pacific Ocean, the volcanoes form a curved line of islands, known as an island arc, that is parallel to the trench, as in the case of the Mariana Islands and the adjacent Mariana Trench.