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By BEN FINLEY Nearly 5 million people visited the Grand Canyon last year, from day trippers and campers to people sleeping ...
The nearly century-old Grand Canyon Lodge in far northern Arizona was a refuge for ambitious hikers and adventurous tourists eager to bask in the magnificent views ...
What a time to be alive. Change, disruption, upheaval everywhere you look. Tectonic plates crashing about and smashing up the ...
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Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years—and ...
Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate. This ancient “mega plate,” which once spanned an astonishing 15 ...
A new method integrates Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) with conventional ground geodetic networks, taking us closer to high-resolution mapping of plate motions.
The Bigger Picture of Plate Movements Understanding lost tectonic plates like Pontus is crucial for reconstructing Earth’s geological past and predicting future tectonic activity.
Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones meet in East Africa ...