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plate tectonics
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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…
Volcanoes, diamonds, and blobs: a billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought
Earth’s interior 80 million years ago with hot structures in yellow to red (darker is shallower) and cold…