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fromHarvard Gazette
1 month ago

A world-shifting moment (literally) - Harvard Gazette

Geoscientists have found evidence of plate movement on Earth dating back 3.5 billion years, reshaping our understanding of its early history.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

When did plate tectonics on Earth begin? New research finds some of the earliest clues

Magnetic evidence from ancient Western Australian crust reveals plate tectonics began at least 3.48 billion years ago, half a billion years earlier than previously documented.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
3 months ago

How supercontinent breakups leave geological orphans behind

These scraps of continental crust are found in the middle of oceans, sometimes hundreds of miles from the nearest continent. Scientists have been mystified for decades by how they came to be there; the fragments were even used as an argument against plate tectonics, says Joao Duarte, a geologist at the University of Lisbon in Portugal. But a recent study in Nature Geoscience suggests that these misplaced fragments fit just fine within our understanding of plate tectonics and actually
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fromVulture
4 months ago

Life After Melvyn Bragg

In Our Time is an austere, long-running BBC Radio 4 program convening experts to explore esoteric subjects and reaching over two million weekly listeners.
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fromHigh Country News
4 months ago

Drifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country News

Plate tectonics replaced fixed-continent views by linking seafloor spreading and magnetic evidence to a revolutionary understanding of continental and oceanic processes.
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fromHigh Country News
4 months ago

An introduction to deep time in the West - High Country News

Earth's deep time renders human history almost instantaneous, with landscapes shaped over billions of years still affecting present-day Western North America.
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fromenglish.elpais.com
5 months ago

The Iberian Peninsula is rotating clockwise, scientists report

The Eurasian and African plates are converging, rotating Iberia clockwise and compressing the Strait of Gibraltar, ultimately closing the Mediterranean and joining Europe and Africa.
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fromMail Online
5 months ago

Africa is splitting in TWO, magnetic data reveals

Africa is rifting and will split into two separate landmasses over millions of years driven by the East African Rift's ongoing tectonic activity.
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fromArchDaily
7 months ago

Beyond the Metropolis: Strategies for Residential Projects in the Taiwanese Countryside

Taiwan's 36,197 km² area has high population density concentrated on western plains due to mountainous terrain; about 22% of land remains agricultural.
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fromState of the Planet
7 months ago

Earth's Crust Is Tearing Apart off the Pacific Northwest-and That's Not Necessarily Bad News

A Cascadia subduction zone off Vancouver Island is actively tearing itself apart, revealing how subduction zones can terminate and affecting earthquake risk.
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fromFuturism
7 months ago

Scientists Intrigued by Weird Structures on Surface of Venus

Coronae on Venus result from processes tied to a single, unbroken crust, contrasting Earth's plate tectonics and illuminating divergent planetary evolution.
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fromState of the Planet
8 months ago

Taking Science Education to the Seas With the 2025 School of Rock

Thirteen diverse educators experienced immersive, hands-on oceanographic research aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth, gaining field skills, teamwork, and subject knowledge.
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