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Geology, biology agree on Pangaea supercontinent breakup dates
Independent estimates from geology and biology agree on the timing of the breakup of the Pangaea supercontinent into today’s continents, scientists have found. Geology News — ScienceDaily
Geology, Biology Agree on Pangaea Supercontinent Breakup Dates
The distribution of fossils across the continents is one line of evidence pointing to the existence of Pangaea. Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found that independent estimates from geology and biology agree on the timing of the … Continue reading
Myth busted: No hyperlink between gigantic asteroid break-up, rise in biodiversity
Some 470 million years in the past, through the center a part of the geological interval generally known as the Ordovician, an asteroid collision passed off someplace between Mars and Jupiter. The collision induced an explosion that despatched a cascade … Continue reading
Decrease in oceanic crustal thickness because the breakup of Pangaea
Nature Geoscience 10, fifty eight (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2849 Authors: Harm M. A. Van Avendonk, Joshua T. Davis, Jennifer L. Harding & Lawrence A. Lawver Nature Geoscience – Issue – nature.com science feeds
Faults control the amount of water flowing into the Earth during continental breakup
New light has been shed on the processes by which ocean water enters the solid Earth during continental breakup. Research led by geoscientists at the University of Southampton, and published in Nature Geoscience this week, is the first to show … Continue reading
Foreign minister says Ukraine break-up ‘worst-case scenario’
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-8ab895a610ef68cc1432d0a6ca046300.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”Foreign minister says Ukraine break-up ‘worst-case scenario’” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-8ab895a610ef68cc1432d0a6ca046300.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, February 28 – Fragmentation in troubled Ukraine would be the “worst-case scenario,” Italy’s Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini said Friday. P”The territorial break-up of … Continue reading