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A panel of experts voted down a proposal to officially declare the start of a new interval of geologic time, one defined by humanity’s changes to the planet. By Raymond Zhong The Triassic was the dawn ...
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One of the World’s Largest Continents Is Splitting Apart, and a New Ocean Emerges Faster Than Scientists Predicted
The African continent is undergoing a geological transformation that, in the distant future, could create a new ocean. Researchers studying the East African Rift System have observed the tectonic ...
It is by their beginnings that the ages of the Earth are known. Agreeing on the precise point at which each particular syllable of recorded time began is a fundamental, often fractious and frequently ...
The quake is the most recent in a string of earthquakes that have hit the country this year, raising fears that volcanoes could erupt in the areas that were affected. Geological records show that ...
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