Every geography schoolbook has them: maps that look like today's Earth, but not quite, since all continents are merged into a single supercontinent. Those maps were used to explain why dinosaurs in South America and Africa, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2021
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Earthquakes of similar magnitude can cause tsunamis of greatly varying sizes. This commonly observed, but not well-understood phenomenon has hindered reliable warnings of local tsunamis.
Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2021
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New modeling suggests large, high-speed impacts during Venus' early history could reconcile the differences between Venus and its rocky sister planet, Earth.
Planetary Sciences
Dec 15, 2021
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The Andes Mountains are much taller than plate tectonic theories predict they should be, a fact that has puzzled geologists for decades. Mountain-building models tend to focus on the deep-seated compressional forces that ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2021
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Earth's crust is constantly in motion. As tectonic plates that make up the lithosphere shift, pulling apart and crashing into each other, the crust fractures and folds in response. Both faulting and folding play out at fault-bend ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2021
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A reliable early warning system to detect tsunamis could be a step closer thanks to research from Cardiff University.
Earth Sciences
Nov 30, 2021
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Our world's surface is a jumble of jostling tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled under. The ongoing cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth. But what happens when a plate disappears ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2021
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In modern subduction zones—regions around the world that have one tectonic plate sliding past another—one area can act like molasses for seismic waves. These anomalous areas are called low-velocity zones, or LVZs. In ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2021
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Faults along the central portion of the Caribbean-South American tectonic plate boundary are primed to produce a powerful earthquake, posing a potentially serious hazard to northern Venezuela, according to an international ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2021
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A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck about 115 kilometers east of Melbourne in Victoria, causing damage to buildings and forcing residents to evacuate across the city. The quake, which started near Woods Point at a depth ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2021
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