Scientists find ancient 250-million-year-old seafloor from the time of dinosaurs hidden in Earth’s mantle
Geologists found an ancient seafloor trapped deep beneath Earth's mantle, which could solve many previous puzzling observations.
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Scientists resurrect mysterious missing tectonic plate beneath Canada
A long-debated missing tectonic plate beneath Northern Canada has been confirmed with 3D mapping technology.
Evidence of granite found on Mars – Red Planet geology more complex than previously thought
Geologists have now found the most compelling evidence of granites on Mars - something which prompts more complex theories about ...
Reunderstanding how West America was formed
For decades, the accepted theory was that the mountain chains running from Alaska to Mexico were created from fragments of ...
Ancient tectonic plate re-discovered beneath California
(c) Brown University Millions of years ago, an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon oceanic plate used to sit between the ...
Massive 8.6 quake strikes Indonesia – but didn’t create a monster tsunami
An 8.6-magnitude earthquake and powerful aftershocks struck the coast of Indonesia today, resurrecting fears of a big tsunami like the ...
Spectacular underwater volcano eruption shows geologists a land forgotten by time
Scientists who observed an underwater eruption in 2009 concluded they observed a tear in the planetary crust that mimicks the ...
