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We've all heard of the sunken city of Atlantis, but are you aware of the 'Lost City'? This particular underwater landscape is ...
Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...
Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.
At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...
New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...
The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive ...
Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...
Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...
Graphic showing the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Ridge (red line) and how melting ice from Greenland caused changes in the motion of Earth's crust (purple arrows). Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice ...