Geological phenomenon widening the Atlantic Ocean — ScienceDaily
An upsurge of matter from deep beneath the Earth’s crust could be pushing the continents of North and South America further apart from Europe and Africa, new research has found. The plates attached to the Americas are moving apart from those attached to Europe and Africa by four centimetres per year. In between these continents […]
10 geological discoveries that absolutely rocked 2020
This year, scientists uncovered some of the Earth’s most well-kept secrets. They found hidden rivers, chunks of lost continents and remnants of ancient rainforests, and they delved into the planet’s ancient history using cutting-edge technologies. Who knows what they’ll unearth next! While we wait to find out, here are 10 of the geological discoveries that […]
New geological findings from eastern Fennoscandia add new dimensions to the history of European ice
IMAGE: Map showing the localities in NW Europe and Fennoscandia where deposits representing the different warm intervals during the last 420,000 years of Ice Age are preserved. The grey ellipsoid indicates… view more Credit: Matti Räsänen In Finland, the majority of the glacial and warm interval records have been interpreted to represent only the last, Weichselian, […]
New geological findings from eastern Fennoscandia add new dimensions to the history of European Ice Age
Map showing the localities in NW Europe and Fennoscandia where deposits representing the different warm intervals during the last 420,000 years of Ice Age are preserved. The grey ellipsoid indicates the location of the revised localities in the study. The thick grey W-E zone shows the approximate position of the inferred northern limit of boreal […]
