New Geological Map of New Guinea Rewrites the Story of Birds-of-Paradise Evolution
A new palaeo-tectonic reconstruction of New Guinea reveals that proto-New Guinean landmasses existed from 35 million years ago and pinpoints ...
Tag: plate tectonics
Ancient Lavas Reveal Earth’s Deep Mantle Slowly Breathed Itself Oxidized
Chromium isotope analysis of 66 ancient volcanic rocks shows Earth's deep mantle became progressively more oxidized from the Archean to ...
Massive New Stress Map Reveals Earth’s Crust Is Far More Twisted Than We Thought
The 2025 release of the World Stress Map database, containing 100,842 stress records, shows that maximum horizontal stress orientations rotate ...
Papua New Guinea Rock Reveals a Surprising Hot-to-Cold Shift Inside a Subduction Zone
A newly identified ultrahigh-pressure eclogite from Papua New Guinea records a four-million-year-old subduction journey that shifted from unexpectedly hot conditions ...
How the Mantle’s Hidden Creep Turns Strong Plates into Weak Boundaries
New numerical simulations show that low-temperature dislocation creep in olivine provides the physical mechanism that allows strong tectonic plates to ...
Tectonic Upheaval, Supercontinent Breakup, and the Trigger of the Cambrian Explosion
A new synthesis argues that supercontinent breakup, Gondwanan orogeny, and a collapsing geomagnetic field together drove the material cycling that ...
Tiny Garnet Time Capsules Reveal Subduction Zones Start Out Surprisingly Warm
A 4.4-million-year-old coesite eclogite from Papua New Guinea reveals that young subduction zones begin with warm geothermal gradients of about ...
Ancient Sea Levels Reveal Episodes of Rapid True Polar Wander
A new analysis of ancient sea-level patterns reveals four episodes of rapid true polar wander over the past 320 million ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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