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Joint Russian and German bottom survey of World ocean's southern part near the Drake Passage resulted in discovery of the previously unknown vast underwater plateau Pirie. Scientists from Russian Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry and German Polar and Marine Research Ins...

For many years geologists have harboured a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, Canada and Mexico. The North America plate extends through Alaska across the Bering...

A cataclysm 50 million years ago changed the face of the planet from the Hawaiian Islands to Antarctica, according to new research. The collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean turned Australia into a warm and sunny continent instead of a snowbound wasteland and created some of...

The largest tear in the Earth's crust seen in decades, if not centuries, could carve out a new ocean in Africa, according to satellite data. Geologists say a crack that opened up last year may eventually reach the Red Sea, isolating much of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa. [img]h...

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Tectonics Earth Gondwana ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	General news	29	30473	Feb 4 09:49 2017 by Blobrana
Joint Russian and German bottom survey of World ocean's southern part near the Drake Passage resulted in discovery of the previously unknown vast underwater plateau Pirie. Scientists from Russian Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry and German Polar and Marine Research Ins...
Tectonics Earthquake Okhotsk block (Preview)	General news	5	7549	Oct 1 07:43 2013 by Blobrana
For many years geologists have harboured a belief that the Kamchatka Peninsula, shrouded in mystery and secrecy on Russia's east coast, actually sits on the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States, Canada and Mexico. The North America plate extends through Alaska across the Bering...
Tectonics Izanagi Ridge (Preview)	General news	0	1753	Oct 24 21:02 2007 by Blobrana
A cataclysm 50 million years ago changed the face of the planet from the Hawaiian Islands to Antarctica, according to new research. The collapse of an underwater mountain range in the Pacific Ocean turned Australia into a warm and sunny continent instead of a snowbound wasteland and created some of...
Ocean Tectonics Ocean Birth (Preview)	General news	7	11068	Mar 27 16:00 2012 by Blobrana
The largest tear in the Earth's crust seen in decades, if not centuries, could carve out a new ocean in Africa, according to satellite data. Geologists say a crack that opened up last year may eventually reach the Red Sea, isolating much of Ethiopia and Eritrea from the rest of Africa. [img]h...