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Although the San Andreas fault hasn't been behaving as usual, it's best not to get complacent.
This is the story of the last in a breed of geological titans, a supercontinent we named Gondwana.
It's a big call, but researchers are confident.
Different causes, same effect.
Tectonics^2.
Goddesses... always have to stand out, don't they?
Scientists found several faults with its application.
How did South America slot next to Africa? Where was my country a billion years ago?
We tend to think of the planets as static, enduring, and never changing. With the average human life spanning only decades, we can be forgiven that the dimension of time in which geological processes take place goes a bit over our heads. However, recent images captured by satellites showing the birth of two volcanic islands published in a study by Nature Communications are a powerful reminder that the Earth is a planet alive under its crust as well as above.
Some 17 million years ago, a beaked whale took a wrong turn up an African river, something which ultimately proved to be its demise. But now, geologists studying the whale's fossils believe the whale's unfortunate end might shed a new light on early human evolution.
Plate tectonics is one of the most important theories, from the point of view of its practical effects on society – just look at the earthquake in Japan, or the iminent one in California, for example. More than 40 years ago, a man named J. Tuzo Wilson published a paper in Nature, describing how ocean […]
