What Earth do you live on? A round one? Flat one? Maybe your world is resting on the back of a huge cosmic turtle? What about a hollow Earth? Just a planet’s shell levitating around absolutely nothing ...
Acoustic wave data reveals the Earth's crust in the Turkana rift has shrunk to 13km, signaling the eventual birth of a new ...
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One of Earth’s largest continents is splitting open: A 3,000-kilometer scar reveals a new ocean forming faster than expected
The crust beneath Kenya’s Lake Turkana is roughly 13 kilometers, or 8 miles, thick. That is not a typo. Typical continental crust can extend 35 kilometers or more, yet along the axis of the Turkana ...
Asteroids and planetesimals regularly bombarded Earth between about 4.6 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, during the Hadean and Archean eons. Because few rocks today are more than 4 billion years old ...
Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that changes ...
Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning. Continents collide. Tectonic plate edges slip, one beneath the other, into the mantle. Mountains rise, and chasms yawn, and ...
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