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🌍 Discovery: continents disintegrating at their base

The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes ...
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🌍 A fault in Turkey is pulling apart instead of sliding: a major discovery

The Earth's crust is constantly moving, and certain regions of the globe offer us unique windows to observe these movements imperceptible to the naked eye. Researchers have just made a ...
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Bits of Earth's continents peel off into the ocean, sparking volcanoes

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.
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Movement Of The Solar System Through The Milky Way’s Galactic Spiral Arms Helped Form Earth’s First Continents

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...
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A New Ocean Is Forming—and It’s Tearing a Continent Apart

Africa’s future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...
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Movement of the solar system through the Milky Way’s galactic spiral arms helped form Earth’s first continents

Boulder, Colo., USA: A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust goes through cycles, with periods of increased crust ...