When the rigid plates that make up Earth's lithosphere brush against one another, they often form visible boundaries, known as faults, on the planet's surface. Strike-slip faults, such as the San Andreas Fault in California ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2023
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It's easy to be a pessimist in a world full of calamities. But for those worried about the continuing availability of natural resources, data from the ocean makes a good case for optimism, says economic geologist Lawrence ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2010
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A new model for primate origins is presented in Zoologica Scripta, published by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The paper argues that the distributions of the major ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2010
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When it comes to finding the right kind of planet to target in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, the size of the planet matters.
Space Exploration
Jan 6, 2015
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Seen from space, the Earth is blue. The Earth has been blue for over 4 billion years because of the liquid water on its surface. How has the Earth managed to sustain liquid water on its surface for such a long time?
Earth Sciences
Feb 4, 2021
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The Huallaga River in the Andes of central Peru extends for 1,138 km, making it the largest tributary of the Marañón River, the spinal cord of the Amazon River. This basin harbors a great variety of ecosystems, including ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 31, 2021
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Two miles below the surface of the ocean, researchers have discovered new microbes that "breathe" sulfate.
Earth Sciences
Jan 14, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand's South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 25, 2011
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Every school child learns about the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. But what if there were a deep Earth component of this process happening on geologic timescales that makes our planet ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 17, 2019
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(Phys.org) —Titanic forces in the Earth's crust explain why the abundance and richness of corals varies dramatically across the vast expanse of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, a world-first study from the ARC Centre of Excellence ...
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2013
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