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plate tectonics
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The Making of Mount Everest
The Himalayas, once a shallow sea bed, rose due to tectonic collisions, resulting in a dramatic shift in…
We discovered a new way mountains are formed – from ‘mantle waves’ inside the Earth
The Drakensberg mountains form part of the Great Escarpment encircling southern Africa. Ondrej Bucek / Shutterstock Thomas Gernon,…
Earthquake Science and the Richter Scale
Due to geological differences, earthquakes of similar magnitudes can have different effects depending on the region. For instance,…
How Did Pangea Split Apart?
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge, part of the longest mountain range globally, formed due to volcanic activity from the Central…
What Will Earth Look Like In the Future?
Humans have become the first species in history capable of predicting global changes ahead of time, allowing us…
New unified theory shows how past landscapes drove the evolution of Earth’s rich diversity of life
Tristan Salles, University of Sydney; Beatriz Hadler Boggiani, University of Sydney; Laurent Husson, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and…
MIT Geologists Discover Powerful Carbon-Trapping Ability of a Clay Mineral
At a Glance MIT geologists have made a fascinating discovery about a clay mineral called smectite on the…
What causes earthquakes? A geologist explains where they’re most common and why
A man works his way through the rubble of buildings in Marrakesh, Morocco, after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake…
How the age of mammals could end
When Pangea Ultima forms, conditions on Earth will be too inhospitable for most mammals to survive. Maurus Spescha/Shutterstock…
The Western United States Blew Up Millions of Years Ago Because of Magma. Why Were There No Extinctions?
An event known as the Mid-Tertiary ignimbrite flare-up caused several volcanic eruptions across the western United States during…