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A continent buried beneath Europe for 140 million years suddenly reappears
The continent called Greater Adria resurfaces in the scientific community, bringing with it a new way of understanding the Earth's movements. It was nearly 240 million years ago: Greater Adria had ...
Earth’s First Crust Was Continental – Long Before Plate Tectonics Began
New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...
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North America Is Dripping Into Earth's Mantle And An Ancient Victim Is Probably To Blame
Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...