A Year in Review: New Earth Discoveries in 2020 - Science@NASA
Explore some of our top discoveries of 2020, ranging from the coronavirus pandemic’s effect on the environment to a new understanding of the blue shark’s hunting patterns. Measuring a large oceanic migration from space
Giant Cracks Emerging Across US Southwest, Scientists Warn
Sep 12, 2023 · The United States has been pumping so much groundwater that the ground is beginning to split open across southwestern parts of the country for miles on end. These giant cracks, aka fissures, have been spotted in states including Arizona, Utah, and California.
Breaking Earth’s shell into a global plate network - Nature
Jul 17, 2020 · At 30–32 Myr, with sustained interior pressure, cracks initiate and propagate. By 34 Myr, crack coalescence generates features such as triple junctions. By 40 Myr, with the intersection of most...
The African continent is very slowly peeling apart. Scientists say a ...
Jul 17, 2020 · The African continent’s rift has been studied for several decades, but new satellite measurements are helping scientists study the gradual birth of an ocean.
Giant crack frees a massive iceberg in Antarctica | Live Science
Feb 26, 2021 · A giant iceberg, more than 20 times the size of Manhattan, just split off from Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf. This dramatic breakup comes after a major crack formed on the shelf in November 2020...
New proof that Earth's plate tectonics recently underwent a …
Jul 26, 2023 · However, a new study from the University of Copenhagen published in the journal Nature suggests that this style of plate tectonics may be a more recent feature of Earth's geologic history.
“Breaking” News: How Earth’s Outer Shell First ... - SciTechDaily
Jul 22, 2020 · These cracks grew and coalesced into a global network, subdividing early Earth’s shell into plates. They illustrated this idea via a series of numerical simulations, using a fracture mechanics code developed by the paper’s first author, Professor Chunan Tang of the Dalian University of Technology.
‘Curved’ Wasatch fault may be even more destructive and deadly than ...
Mar 19, 2021 · A 217-mile network of cracks in the the earth running south from Malad, Idaho, past Nephi, the Wasatch fault has a 57% chance of unleashing a magnitude 6 earthquake in the next 50 years, or a 40%...
What Cracked the Earth's Outer Shell and Started its Plate Tectonics ...
Jul 25, 2020 · Earth’s early shell warmed up again, and then cracked into a system of plates. But on the surface of it, it resembles other ideas that have been discredited. And some of those ideas were ...
New study reveals cracks beneath giant, methane gushing craters
Jun 4, 2020 · 250-million-year-old cracks in the seafloor feed greenhouse gas methane into giant craters in the Barents Sea. More than 100 craters, presently expelling enormous amounts of the greenhouse gas ...