Continental drift is still underway, propelled by the roiling currents of magma beneath our feet. According to satellite measurements, Europe and America are separating at the rate of a few centimetres every year. Where Are We all Heading? Given the different directions in which the various conti...
Continental drift, large-scale horizontal movement of continents relative to one another and to the ocean basins during one or more episodes of geologic time. This concept was an important precursor to the development of the theory of plate tectonics, wh
Our results revealed that climate change caused the biodiversity of Plecoptera to slowly diminish in the past and will cause remarkably accelerated biodiversity loss in the future. These findings support the theory that climate change has had its greatest impact on biodiversity over a long temporal ...
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www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN Continental drift and plateau uplift control origination and evolution of Asian and Australian monsoons received: 28 September 2016 accepted: 05 December 2016 Published: 13 January 2017 Xiaodong Liu1,2, Buwen Dong3, Zhi-Yong Yin4, Robin S. Smith3...
This prediction is based on the information about past earthquake occurrences in the given region and the basic assumption that future seismic activity will follow the pattern of past activity by maximizing the conditional probability of earthquake occurrence. The estimated recurrence times and the error...
hour’s drive from here. Out there we won’t have electricity or Internet, but maybe it will increase the power of eyes and hearts and eras. We’ve got a lot to learn from the past, though none of us can be proud of all of it. We’ve got even more to learn from the future....
The most dominant current in the Southern Ocean is the West Wind Drift, which circles Antarctica in an easterly direction. The northern and southern hemispheric gyres are divided by an eastward flowing equatorial countercurrent, which essentially follows the belt of the doldrums. This countercurrent ...
Interest in continental drift increased in the 1950s as knowledge ofEarth’sgeomagnetic fieldduring the geologic past developed from the studies of the British geophysicistsStanley K. Runcorn,Patrick M.S. Blackett, and others. Ferromagnetic minerals such asmagnetiteacquire a permanent magnetization when...
Antarctica’s continental margins pose an unknown submarine landslide-generated tsunami risk to Southern Hemisphere populations and infrastructure. Understanding the factors driving slope failure is essential to assessing future geohazards. Here, we present a multidisciplinary study of a major submarine landsli...