Indonesian volcano erupts
A volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi island erupted Sunday, spewing ash and smoke 5,000 metres into the air.
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The biggest crash on Earth: India slides under Tibet, but how?
During the collision of India with the Eurasian continent, the Indian plate is pushed about 500 kilometers under Tibet, reaching a depth of 250 kilometers. The result of this largest collision in the world is the world's ...
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Sep 16, 2010
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When continents collide: Reconstructing the formation of the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau
Home to some of the highest mountains in the world, including the legendary Mount Everest, the vast Himalayan-Tibetan plateau is often referred to as the "Roof of the World." With an average elevation of 4500 meters above ...
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Nov 26, 2021
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Image: Southern Tibetan Plateau captured by Sentinel-2A
The southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau near the border with western Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim is pictured in this Sentinel-2A image from 1 February 2016.
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Jun 17, 2016
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Chinese continental shelf of exotic origin collided with continental China 100 million years ago
It has been axiomatically accepted that the basement of a continental shelf is the offshore extension and geologically part of the same continental lithosphere. While this notion may hold true in places, our analysis of the ...
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Sep 22, 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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Image: Christmas tree fjords
This Envisat image was acquired over the Westfjords peninsula in northwest Iceland.
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Dec 20, 2013
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Shedding light on the earthquake situation
Researchers from the Swiss Seismological Service have worked together with the Seismology and Geodynamics group at ETH Zurich and with local support in Bhutan to install a temporary seismological network. They plan to use ...
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Feb 20, 2013
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