One of the big mysteries in the history of the Earth is the development of plate tectonics. When exactly did these processes begin? Scientific opinion varies widely.
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Dec 15, 2015
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The Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought, new research from the University of Bristol, UK suggests.
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Nov 18, 2015
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Researchers have discovered how tectonic plates first collided in one of the world's largest deep sea trenches.
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Sep 9, 2015
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University of Oregon geologists have tapped water in surface rocks to show how magma forms deep underground and produces explosive volcanoes in the Cascade Range.
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May 6, 2015
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An international team, including researchers at the University of Liverpool, have shown that south east Iceland is underlain by continental crust.
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Apr 13, 2015
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From the beginning of time, uranium has been part of the Earth and, thanks to its long-lived radioactivity, it has proven ideal to date geological processes and deduce Earth's evolution. Natural uranium consists of two long-lived ...
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Jan 20, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Two-thirds of earth's surface is covered in oceanic crust, but the deep plumbing that generates new crust remains poorly understood. New images from a chain of volcanoes beneath the Pacific Ocean show that magma ...
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Oct 22, 2014
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When South America split from Africa 150 to 120 million years ago, the South Atlantic formed and separated Brazil from Angola. The continental margins formed through this separation are surprisingly different. Along offshore ...
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Jun 6, 2014
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Scientists from the Magma and Volcanoes Laboratory (CNRS) and the European Synchrotron, the ESRF, have recreated the extreme conditions 600 to 2900 km below the Earth's surface to investigate the melting of basalt in the ...
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May 22, 2014
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The Galápagos Islands are home to some of the most active volcanoes in the world, with more than 50 eruptions in the last 200 years. Yet until recently, scientists knew far more about the history of finches, tortoises, and ...
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Mar 5, 2014
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