Missing link to Snowball Earth history emerges from some unusual rocks on Colorado’s Pikes Peak
Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are ...
To Find Alien Intelligence, Start With the Mountains
But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...
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Seismic shift: Is India disappearing under China?
The reporter blames the laws of nature, plate tectonics to be precise. The Earth's crust is like a puzzle, constructed out of many pieces: There are a few gigantic oceanic plates and many smaller ...
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Did plate tectonics give rise to life? Groundbreaking new research could crack Earth's deepest mystery.
Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...
Advances in plate tectonics research provide a new view of deep Earth's carbon emissions
From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...
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John Sclater: 1940-2024
John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...
Future Supercontinent Pangea Ultima Could Trigger Mass Extinction, Reveals New Study
A new study suggests Earth’s next supercontinent could trigger a mass extinction, making most of the land uninhabitable.