Giant Rift Valleys Hint Venus is Still Tectonically Active
New 3D computer simulations from ETH Zurich show that young rift flanks on Venus stay tall and steep,…
A massive rift is splitting Africa apart forming Earth’s sixth ocean
The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and…
New tool tracks lost continents and moving plates over the last 320 million years
Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide…
Antarctic seismic data points to an ancient structure circling Earth’s core
A layer only a few to a few dozen kilometers thick may be draped across the boundary between…
Africa’s major discovery of new 300-mile ocean as continent splits | Science | News
A vast new ocean stretching hundreds of miles could one day split Africa in two, scientists have warned,…
New Insight Tells Us More About Our Planet’s Early Years – From A Piece Of Evidence The Size Of A Grain Of Sand » TwistedSifter
Shutterstock Our planet is around 4.54 billion years old – and as you might expect, it has changed…
Earth’s Lithosphere was Already Segmented and Mobile 3.5 Billion Years Ago
By tracing magnetic signals preserved in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia, geoscientists have found the oldest direct evidence…
Scientists reveal Earth’s crust was moving far earlier
The surface of the Earth is composed of tectonic plates that slowly move around over geologic time, creating…
Tectonic Plate Movements, Not Volcanoes, Drove Major Climate Shifts Over 540 Million Years
New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic eruptions, played the…
Scientists Just Mapped 16 Massive Martian Rivers That Defy Geological Rules by Flowing Without Plate Tectonics
Large drainage systems on Mars. Image from the study. We’ve known for a while that Mars was once…