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Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth's surface
7+ hour, 37+ min ago (1128+ words) Ancient crust buried beneath modern mountains suggests Gondwana once contained about 80% of Earth’s continental landmass. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Hundreds of millions of years after Gondwana broke apart, enormous pieces of the ancient landmass may still be hiding beneath some…...
Why Some Mountains Are Flat On Top
14+ hour, 30+ min ago (682+ words) WorldAtlas Grand Mesa in western Colorado has a summit plateau of roughly 500 square miles, a tabletop broad enough to hold more than 300 lakes. Around the mesa, softer rock beneath its basalt cap has steadily eroded while the resistant summit has…...
A 500-Kilometer Zone Under Italy Reveals a Strange Movement Deep Inside Earth’s Crust
12+ hour, 27+ min ago (649+ words) Something is quietly shifting deep beneath Italy, invisible to anyone standing above it. New research has now brought that hidden process to light, revealing an unexpected way Earth's crust continues to evolve. Deep beneath Italy, a slow geological process is…...
Mineral exploration gets artificial intelligence boost
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (407+ words) China unveiled geological mapping and mineral exploration systems powered by artificial intelligence technologies on Friday, marking a shift from decades of expert-driven fieldwork to more accurate, comprehensive and efficient data — and algorithm-based predictions. The two systems — AI-GeoMapping and AI-OreSeeking — were…...
Italy’s Apennine Mountains mystery: Why is Earth’s crust slowly ‘unzipping’ deep underground, and what is happening beneath the surface?
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (470+ words) Scientists studying Italy’s Apennine Mountains have found a strange process deep below the surface. The Earth’s crust in this region appears to be slowly pulling apart, almost like a zip opening from underground. The finding comes from researchers at the…...
Earth's Crust Is 'Unzipping' Under Italy
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (606+ words) Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning....
Gondwana Was Earth's Largest Supercontinent, and It Sparked the Cambrian Explosion
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (228+ words) The 75% threshold itself, meanwhile, was always somewhat arbitrary. Joseph Meert, a paleogeographer at the University of Florida who established that threshold in 2012, has acknowledged as much. "A lot of people have taken it to be a significant exact number, and…...
800 million years old - Scientists discover 'fingerprints' of supercontinent Gondwana in ancient rocks
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....
In New Research, Alpine Geologist Traces the Forces Behind the Big Bend’s Dramatic Landscapes
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (521+ words) It’s a hallmark of any westering journey beyond the Pecos in Texas. As woodlands give way to plains and desert, the land itself seems to stretch, the horizons to widen. It reflects a geological reality. The American West is slowly…...
Every year Australia slides seven centimeters toward the north-northeast, almost twice the pace of a growing fingernail and quicker than any other continent. Southeast Asia is already in the way, and some models fold the plate into a new supercontinent inside 300 million years.
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (514+ words) A continent racing across the planet at twice the speed of growing fingernails is remaking the map—and threatening the region directly in its path. By Terra Daily Editorial Team · Editorial process Published September 10, 2026 Here is a number that does…...