A continent in motion: GPS shows the East African Rift is slowly splitting apart

Africa's ground is shifting. Tectonic forces are tearing the continent apart along the East African Rift. Satellites and GPS ...
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Ancient ocean volcanoes linked to repeated Triassic extinctions

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There have been five major extinction events that have fundamentally changed how ...
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Researchers propose new step in tectonic squeeze that turns seafloor into mountains

The opening and closing of the Rocas Verdes Basin, a back-arc basin in Patagonia, as described by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin in a study published in Geology. Panels B and C ...
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Undersea Vehicles to Study Formation of Gold and Other Precious Metals On the Pacific Ocean Floor

Image: The Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) will be one of two unmanned vehicles used to explore and map hydrothermal vents sites near Papua New Guinea. (Photo by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...