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fromMail Online
1 week ago

Africa is splitting in TWO as new tectonic boundary forms in Zambia

Crustal cracking under Zambia’s Kafue Rift links hot springs to mantle fluids, indicating an active rift that may eventually split Africa into separate plates.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
6 months ago

Could a Time Capsule Outlast Plate Tectonics?

Roxbury puddingstone, the mottled rock quarried nearby and used for much of the old church masonry in Boston, formed 600 million years ago in violent submarine landslides off the coast of a barren volcanic microcontinent that rifted off Africa. This is so long ago thatin the course of the perpetual wander of continentsthe whole thing happened somewhere near the south pole.
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fromState of the Planet
6 months ago

Repairing Global Navigation Satellite Systems in the Land of Tea

A GNSS network in Bangladesh measures tectonic motion and delta land subsidence with millimeter precision, but most stations are not currently transmitting.
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