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A Mysterious Heartbeat is Coming From Earth's Core That Is Splitting Africa In Two
Beneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is reshaping the continent. A 35-mile-crack known as the Dabbahu fissure was ...
Largest piece of Mars on Earth fetches meteoric $5.3 million at New York auction
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...
Largest Martian Meteorite on Earth sold for millions at auction
The largest piece of Mars ever discovered on Earth was sold for more than $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York. Named NWA 16788, the 54-pound (25-kilogram ...
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The largest chunk of Mars on Earth just fetched a meteoric sum at auction, but bidders really bit at a baby dinosaur skeleton
The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...
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Ancient rocks show earliest evidence of tectonic activity on Earth
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
Geologists Decode Earth’s 4.4-Billion-Year-Old “Missing” Crust
Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...
Scientists Rewrite the Story of Earth’s First Continents With a Fiery New Twist
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...