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IN A NUTSHELL 🗺️ New research reveals Earth’s continents began forming billions of years earlier than previously believed. 🔬 Scientists used ancient crystal chemistry and advanced geodynamic models to uncover these insights. 🌋 The study highlights early tectonic activity, including episodic subduction driven by mantle plumes. 🌍 Early formation of continental crust impacts our understanding of Earth’s climate and the …

Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, in a layer called the mantle, heat builds up and pulses, causing rock to slowly rise toward the crust. This movement is known as a mantle upwelling, and it plays a major role in forming volcanoes, breaking continents apart, and even creating new ocean basins. In East Africa, the Afar Depression is famous among geologists …

Anglo American and Teck Resources to Merge, Forming a Copper Giant  The New York Times Anglo American, Teck Resources to merge in second-largest mining deal ever  Reuters Bloomberg Intelligence: Anglo American Agrees to Buy Teck in Deal Reshaping Mining  Bloomberg.com Copper miners sign a $53 billion mega-merger  Axios Shareholders back Anglo’s ‘once in a generation’ deal with Teck Resources  Financial Times Source link

A new tectonic fault could be emerging beneath the Atlantic Ocean, raising the risk of powerful earthquakes and tsunamis that could ripple across the basin. That’s according to a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience. For centuries, scientists have puzzled over why Portugal has suffered huge earthquakes despite lying far from the world’s major fault lines.  On 1 …

Free-floating, planetary-mass objects that are just drifting carefree through the galaxy, untethered and starless, appear to be able to generate their own systems of moons, like a planetary system on a miniature scale. An analysis of new JWST observations on a number of rogue planets – each weighing between five and 10 Jupiters – has revealed the presence of disks …

Facebook Tweet Email Link As California Democrats prepare to try to redraw the state’s congressional maps in response to a Republican-led effort in Texas, a patchwork coalition is forming to stop them. It includes former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a longtime advocate of nonpartisan redistricting; Charles Munger Jr., the son of the late billionaire Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman; various state and …

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud  —  a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. What is it? The Tarantula nebula is home to some of the largest known stars, boasting masses up to 200 times that of our sun. The Hubble Space Telescope …

Commanders news and observations: Incoming vets begin forming connections  The Washington Post What we’re hearing and seeing at Commanders training camp: Jayden Daniels looks sharp early  ESPN Dan Quinn Presser: “We wanted to be a line of scrimmage team first”  Hogs Haven 5 takeaways from Washington’s pre-training camp press conference  Washington Commanders Washington Commanders undrafted rookie WR makes the most of his opportunity with …

Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, the ground is slowly tearing itself apart — a slow-motion, geological drama. Over millions of years, the African continent will cleave in two, and scientists say a new ocean will one day fill the gap. The Afar region is …