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Investigators at the University of Barcelona, in Spain, say that the collision which occurred between the African and Eurasian tectonic plates – some 30 million years ago - opened up the Mediterranean Basin, but also drove a boost in the diversity of spider species living in the area.
The tectonic event prim... |
1 February 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Using the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the NASA Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite, experts were recently able to capture a new image of the effects of a massive, underwater volcanic eruption. The event occurs above a tectonic hot spot, between the coasts of Spain and North Africa.
The eastern Atlantic Ocean house... |
8 November 2011
10:37 GMT |
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake that struck the eastern parts of Turkey on Sunday, October 23, had a magnitude of about 7.2. The event occurred at around 1:41 pm local time (10:41 UTC), and caught people completely off-guard. The area in this NASA image focused just west of Lak... |
25 October 2011
01:08 GMT |
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Investigators at the Brown University announce that they've recently finished compiling a detailed map of how the lithosphere is set up underneath southern California. The lithosphere is made up of Earth's solid crust and parts of its upper mantle, and includes all tectonic plates.
What geologists at the... |
7 October 2011
16:01 GMT |
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When our planet formed, it may have inadvertently trapped some of the gases in its surroundings in pockets inside its newly-formed crust. This interesting proposal was recently made by a group of experts. The team members argued that analyzing the gas could reveal the history of the solar system.
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27 September 2011
05:02 GMT |
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Scientists with the French research agency CNRS in Paris, led by group leader and geophysicist François Pétrélis, have determined that plate tectonics may be responsible for the swapping of magnetic poles over intervals of millions of years. Plate tectonics is a term used to describe the slow and... |
24 September 2011
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A group of investigators has just released the most comprehensive and detailed map of the foundations on which North America lies to date. The dataset provides an extremely insightful look into the planet's interior, miles beneath the thick continental crust.
Organized as a cut-away map, this view is curved ... |
4 June 2011
06:13 GMT |
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After so many years of wondering about this geologically-remarkable chain of Pacific Ocean islands, experts now finally managed to get a clearer picture of what's hiding underneath Earth's crust there.Usually, volcanic archipelagos such as this one – featuring both active and inactive volcanoes &ndash... |
27 May 2011
06:03 GMT |
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As the impoverished nation of Haiti is struggling to rebuild itself following the earthquake that devastated its population in January 2010, experts are not painting a very encouraging picture. The latest seismic risk maps are very worrying, analysts say.
These maps are created precisely to help Haitian authorities ... |
25 May 2011
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People usually find out very fast when two locked fault lines slip from each other's grip, as this is when earthquakes are produced. But new data analyzes how fault lines can slip against each other slowly, without triggering these powerful events. In order to arrive at this conclusion, experts investigated the ... |
10 May 2011
08:58 GMT |
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South America's Andes mountains are subjected to a very high risk of experiencing a massive earthquake, experts say. The magnitude of the tremor would make it about 10 times stronger than any other similar event that took place in the same area ever before. The tremor risk should be shared with the millions of p... |
10 May 2011
05:46 GMT |
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A team of investigators working on the US West Coast managed to drill a very deep borehole through the San Andreas fault line, one of the most famous and dangerous in the world. The group was able to determine that a soft spot exists in the fault line, and that it is mostly made of clay.Researchers were trying to det... |
31 March 2011
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According to experts, there is no correlation between massive earthquakes occurring on one side of the globe and other, potential tremors that may occur on the other side. In other words, events like the one that took place in Japan on March 11 are unlikely to cause similar devastations elsewhere. What scientists fai... |
29 March 2011
05:05 GMT |
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In the aftermath of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, geologists, physicists and planetary scientists have began an ample campaign to determine what went wrong with the tectonic plates that ruptured during the magnitude 9.0 disaster. Following the 1995 Kobe earthquake, experts were convinced that ... |
23 March 2011
09:01 GMT |
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Experts were finally able to shed some light on a complex geological puzzle that has been keeping this field of research from progressing for decades. The team, based in the UK, found that quartz crystals play a fundamental role in underlying the behavior of tectonic plates. Our planet is formed from three layers, th... |
17 March 2011
11:03 GMT |
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Japanese authorities have been expecting an earthquake similar to the one that struck the country for nearly three decades now, but they were surely not expecting it to strike in the region it did. Geologists say that the fault line that ruptured to produce the magnitude 9.0 tremor that struck 80 miles east of the ci... |
17 March 2011
05:13 GMT |
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Tsunamis are oftentimes produced when earthquakes strike beneath the sea. They are impressive waves that can leave behind a huge trail of devastation, as evidenced by the recent one that struck Japan. Experts now take a look at how these waves form and behave once they reach land. Their name means harbor wave in Japa... |
14 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Investigators were recently able to determine an interesting fact about the Red Planet, when they learned that an area of land near the volcano Olympus Mons shows signs of having been modeled by tectonic activities in recent geological times. The finding is very important because experts believe our neighboring pla... |
3 January 2011
10:47 GMT |
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A geological study of fault lines around the Panama Canal shows that the entire area may be at risk of being struck by a powerful earthquakes. One of the two fault lines in the new research is located directly underneath the Canal. Panama City, the country's capital, will also be exposed to the effects of the de... |
19 November 2010
05:46 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that the long-held theory stating that tectonic plates carry water from the surface deep underground. The new work shows that water penetrates only about 400 kilometers in the mantle. Our planet is made up of three large layers – the core, the mantle and the cru... |
19 October 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Planetary scientists and geologists have always been curious to learn why the Pacific Ring of Fire and other similar regions appear around the world, and new investigations are helping put things into perspective. The Ring of Fire is the generic name given to a circle-like pattern of volcanoes and seismically active ... |
16 October 2010
06:43 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, researchers have determine the existence of an underground fault line near Haiti, which may have been primarily responsible for the January 12 earthquake that struck the nation.The international team that conducted the new investigation says that the subsurface fault was not known before th... |
15 October 2010
02:48 GMT |
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Experts say in a new scientific study that the January earthquake which struck the impoverished nation of Haiti did not release all of the tension accumulated in the tectonic plates surrounding the area. The main implication for this is that future quakes are still possible in the region. They could be of varied magn... |
11 October 2010
03:51 GMT |
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Last year, a corner of Saudi Arabia was subjected to a series of small earthquakes, which finally revealed to scientists the area is more volcanically active than they had estimated.Back in 2009, a part of the country that is located nearest to Egypt experienced as much as 30,000 small tremors, hinting at the fact th... |
27 September 2010
02:46 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new success, researchers managed to observe for the first time the vertical evolution of a major mountain range. The research was conducted on the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It only took a decade of accurate GPS measurements for researchers to become able to figure out this mystery. The high-pr... |
15 September 2010
02:28 GMT |
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Geologists have recently determined that some portions of the original crust that covered the planet when it first solidified somehow managed to escape being recycled in Earth's mantle.This means that, if they know where to look for them, researchers could uncover remnants of the crust that appeared in the plane... |
3 September 2010
11:06 GMT |
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A team of geologists has recently determined that the North American tectonic plate is not made up of a single, solid piece, but of several layers, which alternate new and old rocks.The finding could have important consequences for the field of tectonic studies, which are used to predict the risk an area has of exper... |
1 September 2010
10:23 GMT |
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Over the past few years, increasingly complex computer models have began painting interesting pictures of how the insides of our planet looks like, and that view is continuously getting better. Though it may seem unmovable, the ground is in fact floating on an ocean of molten rock called magma. This layer of the plan... |
27 August 2010
02:50 GMT |
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A team of French investigators is currently traveling to Russia, in order to derive more knowledge of how past volcanic cycles in the Kamchatka Peninsula may have affected the early Earth. The area is one of the most volcanically active in the entire world. Located in eastern Russia, the Peninsula is part of the Paci... |
25 August 2010
09:10 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new finding, a team of experts managed to establish that the devastating tsunami which struck the southwest Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga last fall was not caused by one, but by two massive earthquakes. At this point, details are sketchy, in the sense that scientists don't really know wh... |
18 August 2010
10:45 GMT |
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The region adjacent to the Washington state capital city of Olympia apparently contains two fault lines that seismologists failed to discover until only recently. The finding is bound to have significant implications, considering that the existence of the two areas changes the seismic activity risk levels in the Paci... |
18 August 2010
06:15 GMT |
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The Indian Peninsula can be described as a “newcomer” to the Asian continent. It slammed into the region millions of years ago, after separating form a previous supercontinent and moving across the Indian Ocean. When it struck Asia, it triggered the formation of the Himalayas, as well as the creation of h... |
7 August 2010
06:53 GMT |
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Scientists have been wondering where the massive Banda Arc originated from for decades. The immense, arc-like fold in our planet's crust is located at the intersection of some major tectonic plates, but until now no research team was able to explain the processes that led to its formation. The geological mystery... |
6 August 2010
11:09 GMT |
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Investigators from the Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently determined what causes the historical eruptions of Oregon's tallest mountain, Mount Hood. The new data seems to indicate that a mixing occurring between two different types of magma may be responsib... |
3 August 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Scientists have for a long time wondered as to why certain mid-continental fault lines rupture even when they are not sited directly atop tectonic plate boundaries. Such is the case for example with the New Madrid fault line, which lies southwest from New Madrid, Missouri. Oftentimes, it produces what are known as in... |
31 July 2010
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The Himalaya mountain range is undoubtedly the most impressive in the world, even if only for the fact that it contains the six tallest massifs in the world. Notable among these is Mount Everest which, at its 8,848 meters (29,029 feet), exceeds any other mountain in the world. But the range itself was formed followin... |
14 June 2010
04:16 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the Massachusetts-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announce in a new study that Haiti is still not safe from earthquakes over the coming months and years. These conclusions are based on studies of the tectonic plate system that exists in the Caribbean Sea, the team says,... |
21 May 2010
10:57 GMT |
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According to a new series of scientific observations, the Earth's mantle is moving faster in some spots than researchers first calculated. The mantle is the layer of molten rock that covers the planet's solid core, and lies just beneath the tectonic plates on which Earth's oceans and continents lie. Re... |
20 May 2010
07:02 GMT |
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As scientific instruments become more sensitive to measurements, the accuracy of scientific studies increases as well. But more precision equals more questions, as issues that had once been concealed by the lack of proper equipment are now starting to show and challenge existing theories. One such instance is represe... |
12 May 2010
05:38 GMT |
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Two decades of hard work have finally paid off for a collaboration of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Rice University, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Geophysicist Chuck DeMets (UWM), alongside colleagues Richard Gordon (Rice) and Donald Argus (JPL), has managed to produce an ... |
23 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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In the middle of the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean lies the small island nation of Iceland. It is located at a very peculiar place, right on top of the Atlantic Ridge, which is sort of like a seam going southwards through the mid-Atlantic. What makes this ridge extremely special is that it produces new oceanic... |
23 March 2010
03:04 GMT |
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The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on February 27 was recently established to be the fifth-strongest in recorded history, and also one of the most interesting to study, from a geological perspective. It would appear that planetary scientists have a great deal to learn from it, and also from the changes th... |
9 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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On February 27, a devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the Chilean coastline. The tremor, which was the seventh strongest ever recorded by modern means, could have caused a lot of damage, but fortunately only minimal casualties were recorded, and damage to infrastructure was not considerable. Immediately after... |
3 March 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Soon after the January 12, magnitude 7 earthquake struck the impoverished nation of Haiti, researchers at the University of Washington were deployed in the region. Their main objective was to conduct a study of how the fault lines in the region were modified following the main tremor, and the magnitude 6.2 aftershock... |
23 February 2010
06:13 GMT |
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Geologists and seismologists have been drawing attention for quite some time now that, just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, there is an area of intense geological activity that has largely remained under-researched. At that location, they reveal, the North American plate subdues the Juan de Fuca tectonic plat... |
29 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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For a long time, geologists and seismologists have noticed that some fault lines, which are generally considered to be very stable and strong, tend to “slip up” at some points and become mobile. The scientific community has had no explanation for this phenomenon, so researchers have set out to discover wh... |
17 December 2009
02:47 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Southern California (USC) College of Letters, Arts and Sciences say that they have just finished developing a new tool for forecasting large earthquakes. While plagued with uncertainties, just like all the other warning methods, the new one is also a lot more specific, in that it focus... |
4 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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After seeing the much hyped movie 2012, which began running in theaters around the world a few weeks ago, scientists started questioning the validity of the claims the movie makes. Though it was meant to play at the craze that appears to be taking over the world, which has it that, two years from now, the planet as w... |
1 December 2009
04:35 GMT |
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For a great many years, scientists have believed that the oceans on our planet were formed from water vapors emitted during volcanic eruptions that condensed and fell to the ground over millions of years. But a scientist now proposes that this might not have been the case. He argues that water is not something that o... |
10 November 2009
08:53 GMT |
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Volcanic lava forms some peculiar structures in the deep ocean, including underwater tunnels, which apparently become home to some of the world's most peculiar animal species. The Tunnel de la Atlantida, the longest such formation in the world, recently revealed one of its most peculiar inhabitants, a new eyeles... |
26 August 2009
05:46 GMT |
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