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New Ocean Is Being Born As Africa Splits Into Two Continents

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New Ocean Is Being Born As Africa Splits Into Two Continents

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Beneath America, a Large Buried Heat Blob Is Moving

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Beneath America, a Large Buried Heat Blob Is Moving

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New Stretch of Creeping California Fault Line Discovered

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New Stretch of Creeping California Fault Line Discovered

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Magma ‘Heartbeat’ Is Tearing Continent Apart, Geologists Discover

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Magma ‘Heartbeat’ Is Tearing Continent Apart, Geologists Discover

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North America Is Dripping From Below, Geoscientists Discover

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North America Is Dripping From Below, Geoscientists Discover

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Venus: Could Surprising ‘Missing Mechanism’ Explain Volcanic Mystery?

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Venus: Could Surprising ‘Missing Mechanism’ Explain Volcanic Mystery?

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Easter Island Volcanoes Challenge Textbooks on Earth’s Interior

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Easter Island Volcanoes Challenge Textbooks on Earth’s Interior

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Magma Study Challenges Leading Theory on Origin of Earth’s Continents

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Magma Study Challenges Leading Theory on Origin of Earth’s Continents

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Magnificent Ancient Site ‘Doomed To Disappear’ As Sea Levels Rise

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Magnificent Ancient Site ‘Doomed To Disappear’ As Sea Levels Rise

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‘Giant Impact’ May Have Set Off Plate Tectonics

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‘Giant Impact’ May Have Set Off Plate Tectonics

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Atlantic Ocean May ‘Soon’ Begin to Close

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Atlantic Ocean May ‘Soon’ Begin to Close

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Iceland Volcano Update: New Eruption Sign as Magma Pressure Builds

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Iceland Volcano Update: New Eruption Sign as Magma Pressure Builds

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Iceland Eruption Could Mark Start of Hundred Years of Volcanic Activity

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Iceland Eruption Could Mark Start of Hundred Years of Volcanic Activity

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Iceland Volcano Update: ‘Rapid’ Magma Rise, Radar Images, Eruption Latest

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Iceland Volcano Update: ‘Rapid’ Magma Rise, Radar Images, Eruption Latest

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Super-Deep Diamonds Reveal Secrets of Ancient Supercontinent

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Super-Deep Diamonds Reveal Secrets of Ancient Supercontinent

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Lost Continent Argoland Discovered Hidden Beneath Jungles

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Lost Continent Argoland Discovered Hidden Beneath Jungles

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New Ocean Within Africa Could Take Millions of Years to Form

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New Ocean Within Africa Could Take Millions of Years to Form

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Long-Lost Tectonic Plate Discovered Hundreds of Miles Below Canada

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Long-Lost Tectonic Plate Discovered Hundreds of Miles Below Canada

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One of Africa’s Tectonic Plates Is Rotating in a Different Direction to All the Others

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One of Africa’s Tectonic Plates Is Rotating in a Different Direction to All the Others

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A Newly Formed Volcano Has Been Discovered on the Oldest Part of the Pacific Plate

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A Newly Formed Volcano Has Been Discovered on the Oldest Part of the Pacific Plate

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Earth’s Tectonic Plates Began Moving Around 2.5 Billion Years Ago

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Earth’s Tectonic Plates Began Moving Around 2.5 Billion Years Ago

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Earth’s Core Has Been Leaking for the Last 2.5 Billion Years

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Earth’s Core Has Been Leaking for the Last 2.5 Billion Years

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Scientists Find Bacteria Thriving in Earth Environment That’s Just Like Young Mars

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Scientists Find Bacteria Thriving in Earth Environment That’s Just Like Young Mars

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This Fossil May Reshape Our Idea on When Supercontinent Pangaea Split

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This Fossil May Reshape Our Idea on When Supercontinent Pangaea Split

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Hayward Fault Could Displace 400,000 in California If Earthquake Hits

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Hayward Fault Could Displace 400,000 in California If Earthquake Hits

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Could the Lost City of Atlantis Exist? Ocean Mapping Reveals Likelihood of Legendary City

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Could the Lost City of Atlantis Exist? Ocean Mapping Reveals Likelihood of Legendary City

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Rocky Mountains Formed From Squishy Layers Like a Peanut Butter Sandwich

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Rocky Mountains Formed From Squishy Layers Like a Peanut Butter Sandwich

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Venus Is More Like Earth Than We Thought Despite Nightmare Atmosphere

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Venus Is More Like Earth Than We Thought Despite Nightmare Atmosphere

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Alien Life: Europa Plate Tectonics Could Be Feeding Life on Icy Jupiter Moon

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Alien Life: Europa Plate Tectonics Could Be Feeding Life on Icy Jupiter Moon

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Giant Oxygen Explosions Could Have Set the Stage for Life on Earth

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Giant Oxygen Explosions Could Have Set the Stage for Life on Earth

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