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Earth Is Spinning Faster and Days Are Getting Shorter, for Now
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
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 ...
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Earth Is Pulsing Beneath Africa Where The Crust Is Being Torn Apart
The Afar junction is the point at which the Arabian, Nubian, and Somalian plates meet, each departing in their own directions to leave a widening gap under the Afar Triangle. Eventually, the crust ...
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How Volcanoes Are Born Across the World
Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...
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The Earth’s crust is disappearing beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it
The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...
Scientists Rewrite the Story of Earth’s First Continents With a Fiery New Twist
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
Santorini earthquakes traced to sideways magma movement in crust, not traditional volcanic centers
When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...
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Africa’s Continental Split May Hold Clues To What’s Happening Deep Inside Earth
Scientists found that the speed at which continents split apart directly influences how molten rock flows deep beneath ...
New study confirms 4.16 billion-year-old rocks in Canada as Earth’s oldest
The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...
Earth bursting in Africa, new ocean forming, ‘heartbeat’ under the ground in Ethiopia… scientists make big revelations about….
A steady, rhythmic beat like that of a human heart beneath Ethiopia's Afar region is slowly pulling the continent apart. Scientists have also stated that this underground activity could lead to the ...
Is Africa cracking open? How Earth’s ‘heartbeat’ is tearing the continent apart, forming a new ocean
A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, much like a human heartbeat, is gradually tearing the continent apart. Their s ...
Earth's 'oldest' impact crater is much younger than previously thought
Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.