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Nearly 300 million years ago, the world's last known supercontinent, Pangaea, started breaking up, eventually forming the seven continents we see today. Heat radiating from Earth's molten iron and nickel core is released to the outermost layers of the mantle through convection, which can also be held respon... |
7 July 2008
05:58 GMT |
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The molten rock inside the planet's mantle is in continuous motion as heat is convected from the inner regions towards the outer ones, forming the so-called convection cells where the hot material is being pushed upwards and the colder one falls back down in the vicinity of the core. The motion of this material ... |
3 July 2008
09:59 GMT |
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It's quite obvious that the Earth is going through a climate change that may have effects far more serious than a slight heating of the atmosphere. A prolonged heating, as a new study suggests, could bring our planet into a situation similar to that of Venus, whose crust became locked in place."The heat required... |
13 May 2008
05:33 GMT |
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Dr. Falk Herwig, of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Victoria, BC Canada, used swirling computer simulations which are reminiscent of Van Gogh's star paintings, to show the interior of a star during the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, the final stage of a low- and intermediate-m... |
19 April 2007
08:50 GMT |
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