When did the Andes mountains form?
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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News tagged with continental crust
Meeting face-to-face with El Capitan
Granitic rocks make up much of Earth's continental crust and many of the planet's most iconic landscapes. However, granite's formation is poorly understood because it happens tens of kilometers below the surface. In this ...
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Jul 23, 2015
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Curiosity finds rocks that might point to a continental crust on Mars
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from the U.S., France and the U.K. is reporting that data sent back by the Mars rover Curiosity suggests that the Red Planet may have once had a continental crust similar to that found back ...
New study investigates lithosphere of the Central Iranian plateau
In the July issue of GSA Today, Franz Neubauer of the University of Salzburg and Fariba Kargaranbafghi of the University of Yazd describe thinning of the lithosphere that they associate with the formation of a metamorphic ...
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Jul 13, 2015
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Radioisotope studies show the continental crust formed 3 billion years ago
(Phys.org)—New research sheds light on how and when the modern day continents began to form. Researchers from the University of Bristol analyzed radio isotope abundances in 13,000 samples of continental crust of varying ...
Map shows content and origins of the nation's geologic basement
A map showing the many different pieces of Earth's crust that comprise the nation's geologic basement is now available from the U.S. Geological Survey. This is the first map to portray these pieces, from the most ancient ...
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Apr 24, 2015
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Fragment of continental crust found under southeast Iceland
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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Scientists discover elusive secret of how continents formed
An international research team, led by a Virginia Tech geoscientist, has revealed information about how continents were generated on Earth more than 2.5 billion years ago—and how those processes have continued within the ...
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Mar 31, 2015
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Researchers propose a novel mechanism to explain High Plains elevation
No one really knows how the High Plains got so high. About 70 million years ago, eastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska were near sea level. Since then, the region has risen about two ...
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Mar 6, 2015
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Questions of continental crust
Geological processes shape the planet Earth and are in many ways essential to our planet's habitability for life. One important geological process is plate tectonics – the drifting, colliding and general movement of continental ...
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Nov 27, 2014
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