The Earth could get a new ocean and continent a lot sooner than we thought
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...
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Earth May Get a New Ocean and Continent Sooner Than Expected
Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...
Scientists on alert: Africa is splitting and an ocean is emerging at record speed
The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...
A new ocean? Scientists track dramatic (but slow) changes near Africa.
Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.
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Mysterious Radioactive Anomaly Discovered Deep Under The Pacific Ocean
Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...
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New ocean is being born on Earth: It’s very close to America, but is “strange”
An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.
Where should we look for new metals critical for green energy technology? Volcanoes may point the way
About 400 kilometers northwest of Sydney, just south of Dubbo, lies a large and interesting body of rock formed around 215 ...
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Scientists Say a Sixth Ocean Is Forming as East Africa Splits Apart
Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...
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Ghostly trenches on Ariel may signal a hidden ocean
Ariel’s medial grooves could provide important clues about the moon’s internal structure, particularly regarding the presence ...
We Found an Unexpected Anomaly in the Pacific Ocean
Earth must have experienced something exceptional 10 million years ago. Our study of rock samples from the floor of the ...
An upgraded Alvin puts new ocean depths within reach
The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...
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Discoveries in the Deep
proposes that the seabed's mountainous rifts are invisible scars where molten rock from the Earth's interior wells up periodically and spreads laterally to form new ocean crust, a process he calls ...