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Mount Etna Doesn’t Act Like Any Other Volcano – Now We Might Know Why It's So WeirdEtna's lava flows, and lack of explosive eruptions, are one of the features that make it more like a hotspot volcano than one near a plate boundary, something that has not been explained

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Mount Etna Doesn’t Act Like Any Other Volcano – Now We Might Know Why It's So WeirdEtna's lava flows, and lack of explosive eruptions, are one of the features that make it more like a hotspot volcano than one near a plate boundary, something that has not been explained
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Mount Etna Doesn’t Act Like Any Other Volcano – Now We Might Know Why It's So Weird

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New Plate Boundary Could Be Forming In Southern Africa As A Rift Breaks Through The Earth’s CrustView of the Zambezi River gorge from above on a sunny but hazy evening

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New Plate Boundary Could Be Forming In Southern Africa As A Rift Breaks Through The Earth’s CrustView of the Zambezi River gorge from above on a sunny but hazy evening
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New Plate Boundary Could Be Forming In Southern Africa As A Rift Breaks Through The Earth’s Crust

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Continental Rift Could Explain Why So Many Early Human Fossils Are Found In East AfricaThese fossil-bearing rocks from West Turkana are more than 5 million years old, but the real richness came later, after necking began

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Continental Rift Could Explain Why So Many Early Human Fossils Are Found In East AfricaThese fossil-bearing rocks from West Turkana are more than 5 million years old, but the real richness came later, after necking began
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Continental Rift Could Explain Why So Many Early Human Fossils Are Found In East Africa

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The Planet’s Oldest Minerals Reveal Possible Continents Before 4 Billion Years AgoThis Jack Hills rock containing quartz pebbles is from the Archean eon 3.05-2.65 billion years ago, but the zircons within it are much older.

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The Planet’s Oldest Minerals Reveal Possible Continents Before 4 Billion Years AgoThis Jack Hills rock containing quartz pebbles is from the Archean eon 3.05-2.65 billion years ago, but the zircons within it are much older.
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The Planet’s Oldest Minerals Reveal Possible Continents Before 4 Billion Years Ago

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Two Of The World's Biggest Earthquakes Seem To Be Synched TogetherNorthern hemisphere of globe with north american continent visible and tectonic plates outlined

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Two Of The World's Biggest Earthquakes Seem To Be Synched TogetherNorthern hemisphere of globe with north american continent visible and tectonic plates outlined
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Two Of The World's Biggest Earthquakes Seem To Be Synched Together

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Why Are The Continents All Bunched Up On One Side Of The Planet?a view of the Earth from space focused on the pacific. You can see a bit of north america and australia, and new zealand but no other land.

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Why Are The Continents All Bunched Up On One Side Of The Planet?a view of the Earth from space focused on the pacific. You can see a bit of north america and australia, and new zealand but no other land.
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Why Are The Continents All Bunched Up On One Side Of The Planet?

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Why Is The Top Of Canada So Sparsely Populated? Meet The "Canadian Shield"Morants Curve in Alberta, Canada.

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Why Is The Top Of Canada So Sparsely Populated? Meet The "Canadian Shield"Morants Curve in Alberta, Canada.
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Why Is The Top Of Canada So Sparsely Populated? Meet The "Canadian Shield"

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Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A BalloonGlobes of Earth of different sizes.

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Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A BalloonGlobes of Earth of different sizes.
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Expanding Earth: The Strange (Pre-Tectonics) Hypothesis That The Earth Is Expanding Like A Balloon

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Dramatic Video Shows "First-Ever" Fault Movement Surface Rupture Caught On CameraMap showing epicenter of Myanmar earthquake.

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Dramatic Video Shows "First-Ever" Fault Movement Surface Rupture Caught On CameraMap showing epicenter of Myanmar earthquake.
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Dramatic Video Shows "First-Ever" Fault Movement Surface Rupture Caught On Camera

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North America Is Dripping Into Earth's Mantle And An Ancient Victim Is Probably To Blameoutline of the north american tectonic plate on a diagram of the top of the earth

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North America Is Dripping Into Earth's Mantle And An Ancient Victim Is Probably To Blameoutline of the north american tectonic plate on a diagram of the top of the earth
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North America Is Dripping Into Earth's Mantle And An Ancient Victim Is Probably To Blame

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People Are Confused Why You Can Find Marine Fossils On Top Of MountainsMarine fossils found on a mountain.

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People Are Confused Why You Can Find Marine Fossils On Top Of MountainsMarine fossils found on a mountain.
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People Are Confused Why You Can Find Marine Fossils On Top Of Mountains

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Beneath The Middle East, An Ancient Seabed Is Splitting From The Continental PlatesThe Zagros Mountains and sediments that have accumulated over millions of years along the depression at the base of the mountains.

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Beneath The Middle East, An Ancient Seabed Is Splitting From The Continental PlatesThe Zagros Mountains and sediments that have accumulated over millions of years along the depression at the base of the mountains.
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Beneath The Middle East, An Ancient Seabed Is Splitting From The Continental Plates

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What Is The Pacific Ring Of Fire?Photo of Krakatoa covered in lava and billowing smoke

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What Is The Pacific Ring Of Fire?Photo of Krakatoa covered in lava and billowing smoke
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What Is The Pacific Ring Of Fire?

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Tourists May Have Spent Their Holiday On The Lost Continent Of Greater Adria "Without Realizing It"Sacra di San Michele in the province of Turin.

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Tourists May Have Spent Their Holiday On The Lost Continent Of Greater Adria "Without Realizing It"Sacra di San Michele in the province of Turin.
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Tourists May Have Spent Their Holiday On The Lost Continent Of Greater Adria "Without Realizing It"

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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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