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Scientists Discover a 10-Million-Year-Old Element in the Ocean That Could Rewrite Earth’s Ancient History
For decades, scientists have sought reliable ways to reconstruct Earth’s ancient history, deciphering geological events that ...
An unexpected anomaly was found in the Pacific Ocean – and it could be a global time marker
There seems to be too much of a radioactive element in rocks deep in the Pacific Ocean – how did it get there 10 million ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
Anomaly in the deep sea
Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...
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In The Far Future There Will Be Only One Supercontinent On Earth, Too Hot For Most Species To Survive
David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Over the past 2 billion years, Earth's continents have collided together to form a supercontinent every 200 to 600 million years ...
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Anomaly in the deep sea: Accumulation of rare atoms could improve geological dating methods
It suggests that the after-effects of a near-Earth supernova could have caused cosmic radiation to become temporarily more intense 10 million years ago ... samples in the future and hope that ...
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How plate tectonics will change Earth in 250 million years
According to plate tectonics theory, Earth's outer shell is divided into multiple plates that slowly glide over the mantle. This slowly changes Earth's surface over time by merging, or separating ...
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Birth of the Himalaya
To understand the fascinating mechanics of the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface ... the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were ...