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A Surviving Remnant Of Dinosaur-Era Tectonic Plate Rewrites Mantle BehaviorThe Nazca Plate has interesting tectonic activity at both ends today, and beneath there is an ancient remnant of a dinosaur-era subduction event.

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A Surviving Remnant Of Dinosaur-Era Tectonic Plate Rewrites Mantle BehaviorThe Nazca Plate has interesting tectonic activity at both ends today, and beneath there is an ancient remnant of a dinosaur-era subduction event.
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A Surviving Remnant Of Dinosaur-Era Tectonic Plate Rewrites Mantle Behavior

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How Magnetic Fields Control Flow Within Earth’s CoreThe Little Earth Experiment models the behavior of the Earth's inner and outer cores in response to powerful magnetic fields.

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How Magnetic Fields Control Flow Within Earth’s CoreThe Little Earth Experiment models the behavior of the Earth's inner and outer cores in response to powerful magnetic fields.
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How Magnetic Fields Control Flow Within Earth’s Core

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Clues Found In The Quest For The World's Oldest Continuous Ice CoreIce cores such as this one collected at the South Pole are one of our best opportunities to study past climates, but if we want to go back a long way we need to find the right place to drill.

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Clues Found In The Quest For The World's Oldest Continuous Ice CoreIce cores such as this one collected at the South Pole are one of our best opportunities to study past climates, but if we want to go back a long way we need to find the right place to drill.
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Clues Found In The Quest For The World's Oldest Continuous Ice Core

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Around 40 Circular Structures Confirmed To Be Stretching Under Lake Michigansunset reflecting on lake michigan

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Around 40 Circular Structures Confirmed To Be Stretching Under Lake Michigansunset reflecting on lake michigan
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Around 40 Circular Structures Confirmed To Be Stretching Under Lake Michigan

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Everest Is A Freak Among The Himalayas, And Now We Know WhyMount Everest

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Everest Is A Freak Among The Himalayas, And Now We Know WhyMount Everest
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Everest Is A Freak Among The Himalayas, And Now We Know Why

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Decade-Long Mystery Behind Siberia's Massive Explosive Craters Finally RevealedA photo shows the enormous crater caused by the explosions. The hole has a lip of grey clay that then drops into a deep shaft that is tends of feet across. In the background of the image, three people are standing looking into the hole but they are tiny compared to its size.

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Decade-Long Mystery Behind Siberia's Massive Explosive Craters Finally RevealedA photo shows the enormous crater caused by the explosions. The hole has a lip of grey clay that then drops into a deep shaft that is tends of feet across. In the background of the image, three people are standing looking into the hole but they are tiny compared to its size.
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Decade-Long Mystery Behind Siberia's Massive Explosive Craters Finally Revealed

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What's The Oldest River In The World? Dry riverbed of Finke River

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What's The Oldest River In The World? Dry riverbed of Finke River
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What's The Oldest River In The World?

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Geological Fingerprints Suggest The Anthropocene Started In The 1950sEarth globe showing artificial lights on black background.

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Geological Fingerprints Suggest The Anthropocene Started In The 1950sEarth globe showing artificial lights on black background.
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Geological Fingerprints Suggest The Anthropocene Started In The 1950s

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Woman Gets Third-Degree Burns After Falling Through Crust In YellowstoneAn aerial photo of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring showing the rich blue of the spring itself as well as the bright yellow and orange stained soils surrounding it. There is steam coming from the water. In the background, another spring is visible which is almost completely covered in thicker plumes of steam. The boardwalks are also visible snaking their way around the springs as tourists visit.

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Woman Gets Third-Degree Burns After Falling Through Crust In YellowstoneAn aerial photo of Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring showing the rich blue of the spring itself as well as the bright yellow and orange stained soils surrounding it. There is steam coming from the water. In the background, another spring is visible which is almost completely covered in thicker plumes of steam. The boardwalks are also visible snaking their way around the springs as tourists visit.
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Woman Gets Third-Degree Burns After Falling Through Crust In Yellowstone

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Game-Changing "Dark Oxygen" Discovery On Seafloor Challenged In High-Stakes DebateThese metal blobs in the deep ocean may act like natural batteries.

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Game-Changing "Dark Oxygen" Discovery On Seafloor Challenged In High-Stakes DebateThese metal blobs in the deep ocean may act like natural batteries.
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Game-Changing "Dark Oxygen" Discovery On Seafloor Challenged In High-Stakes Debate

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It's True: China’s Three Gorges Dam Is So Big It Changes Earth's SpinAn image of the Three Gorges Dam in China taken by astronauts on the International Space Station in April 2009.

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It's True: China’s Three Gorges Dam Is So Big It Changes Earth's SpinAn image of the Three Gorges Dam in China taken by astronauts on the International Space Station in April 2009.
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It's True: China’s Three Gorges Dam Is So Big It Changes Earth's Spin

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Spell Your Name With USGS And NASA's Glorious Satellite ImageryThe letters for IFLScience spelt out in brightly colored satelittle images of lakes and rivers.

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Spell Your Name With USGS And NASA's Glorious Satellite ImageryThe letters for IFLScience spelt out in brightly colored satelittle images of lakes and rivers.
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Spell Your Name With USGS And NASA's Glorious Satellite Imagery

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Greenland’s Climate-Driven Megatsunami Caused The Whole Earth To Shake For 9 DaysIt looks like an ordinary glacier, but a month after this image was taken rock sliding down this slope produced one of the most remarkable events ever detected.

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Greenland’s Climate-Driven Megatsunami Caused The Whole Earth To Shake For 9 DaysIt looks like an ordinary glacier, but a month after this image was taken rock sliding down this slope produced one of the most remarkable events ever detected.
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Greenland’s Climate-Driven Megatsunami Caused The Whole Earth To Shake For 9 Days

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Earthquakes And Piezoelectricity Could Trigger Gold Nugget Formation In QuartzGold nuggets on black background

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Earthquakes And Piezoelectricity Could Trigger Gold Nugget Formation In QuartzGold nuggets on black background
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Earthquakes And Piezoelectricity Could Trigger Gold Nugget Formation In Quartz

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Watch 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth's Moving Tectonic Plates In Just 1 MinuteEarth planet with ancient supercontinent Rodinia, 3d rendering

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Watch 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth's Moving Tectonic Plates In Just 1 MinuteEarth planet with ancient supercontinent Rodinia, 3d rendering
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Watch 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth's Moving Tectonic Plates In Just 1 Minute

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