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The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.
This is the story of the last in a breed of geological titans, a supercontinent we named Gondwana.
There's some good news, but also a lot of bad news.
If you want to understand something, you need to study it closely.
There're two ways you can find out how supercontinents form. Reading this is the one where you don't have to wait millions of years.
Scientists have developed a new catalogue of earthquake lights, glows sometimes reported during the seismic shaking, and sometimes even before it. The phenomenon has been reported by eyewitnesses for centuries, but only recently did scientists start taking them seriously. The science of glowing earthquakes Even though they have been described both before and during the […]
Even an area so studied as Hawaii sometimes yields surprises – a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) and the University of Rhode Island (URI) changes the very foundation of how the Hawaii islands were formed: it is the eruptions […]
