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What Are Tectonic Plates? Types, Movement, and Their Role in Earth's Seismic ActivityTectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...
A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...
Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
In the Afar region of Ethiopia, the ground beneath our feet is stretching and tearing at a rate of 16 millimeters per year ...
Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...
Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...
Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.
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Worcester Telegram on MSNWoo! Science: The Worcester area holds clues to the Earth's distant pastThe Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...
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