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Scientists challenge a basic fact we were all taught about Earth: It’s really shaking up geology
A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.
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Woo! Science: The Worcester area holds clues to the Earth's distant past
The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...
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Minor 3.3 earthquake shakes Northern California residents
A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...
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Volcanoes: limits to the growth
The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...
Geologists suggest early continents formed through mantle plumes, not plate collisions
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
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Lost Pacific tectonic plate named Pontus found after 160 million years
Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...
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A newly forming ocean may split Africa apart, scientists say
"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...
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Earth’s Hidden Heartbeat Is Slowly Creating A New Ocean
Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...
Scientists Just Found Earth’s Pulse – And It’s Tearing a Continent Apart
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada
Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...
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Earth Scientists Detect Pulsing Beneath Ethiopia — And It Could One Day Split Africa and Create a New Ocean
The magma movement beneath the planet’s crust could be the early stages of a new ocean basin formation, which could slowly ...
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Changes in tectonic plates: Africa on the path to splitting in two
Jerusalem Post / OMG Changes in tectonic plates: Africa on the path to splitting in two A dramatic transformation of the Earth's surface: In the Afar region of Ethiopia, the ground beneath our ...