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Simulations, ancient magnetism suggest mantle plumes may bend deep beneath Earth's crust

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Computer simulations, paleomagnetism and plate motion histories described in today's issue of Science reveal how hotspots, centers of erupting magma that sit atop columns of hot mantle that were once though ...





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Dunes, climate models don't match up with paleomagnetic records

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 26, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 2

For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north ...


San Fernando, Northridge quakes may be maximum

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created Apr 21, 2005 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new study by researchers at Oregon State University suggests that the magnitude 6.7 earthquakes that struck California's San Fernando Valley in 1971 and Northridge area in 1994 may have been about the most powerful quakes ...


Arctic Turtle

Ancient turtle migrated from Asia to America over a tropical Arctic

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 01, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 0

In Arctic Canada, a team of geologists from the University of Rochester has discovered a surprise fossil: a tropical, freshwater, Asian turtle. The find strongly suggests that animals migrated from Asia to ...


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Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory

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created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 1

Even in geology, it's not often a date gets revised by 500 million years. But University of Florida geologists say they have found strong evidence that a half-dozen major basins in India were formed a billion ...


Studies of ancient supercontinent don't match up

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created Nov 26, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (40) | comments 0

For a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists—supported by paleomagnetic records in rock—has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern ...



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