New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...
Africa gradually pulled apart along the East African rift, a slow tectonic shift that could have formed a new ocean and ...
Climate change is usually associated with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide, but our planet's surface also plays a major ...
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Africa is splitting: The birth of a new ocean
Most of the Earth is covered by water. About 71 percent of the planet’s surface is ocean, while the rest is land made up of ...
The two halves of the African continent are moving apart at a rate of a few millimeters each year, geologists have calculated ...
No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even ...
Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...
No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even geophysicists had ...
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