Questions tagged [geology]
Questions related to processes and principles related to the interior and the solid surface of a planetary body.
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What are the effects of mass concentration along a planet's axis of rotation?
Reading about geological history of Mars and coming across the Martian dichotomy, which is about having the two hemispheres' geography differ in elevation by 1 to 3 km.
Does this mean that Mars' ...
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Is an earth-sized moon orbiting a super-earth feasible?
Is an earth-sized moon orbiting a super-earth feasible?
Or would tidal forces say 'no thanks'?
I'm making a system for the Kerbal Space Program Kopernicus mod and am trying to make it as realistic as ...
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Why don't scientists believe Earth's surface water came up from the mantle?
I read, periodically, that there is more water trapped in the mantle than there is in the oceans - possibly a lot more.
If so, why don't any geologists believe that Earth's surface and near-surface ...
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