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There’s no single reason many Asian animals spread to Australia but few went the other way – but climate, geography and the slow drift of tectonic plates all played a role.
Evidence from the Pilbara region suggests Earth in its youth behaved very differently to how it does today, and had more water within it than previously thought.
A big dip in the Earth’s crust may record an ancient continental collision from the dawn of plate tectonics.
We undertook a 28-day voyage to explore a possible lost continent in a remote part of the Coral Sea, in an area off the coast of Queensland. Here’s what we found.
Scientists have predicted four supercontinent scenarios - but which is the most likely?
Tides are the largest they have been for 250m years.
Fifty years on from a groundbreaking paper, geophysicists have progressed from believing continents never moved to thinking that every movement may leave a lasting memory on our planet.
From the 1950s until recently, we thought we had a clear idea of how continents form. Most people will have heard of plate tectonics: moving pieces on the surface of the planet that collide, pull away…
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Professor in Physical Oceanography, Bangor University
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Chair in Geophysics, University of Aberdeen
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Assistant Professor, Environmental Geophysics, University of Toronto
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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PhD Researcher, Universidade de Lisboa
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Researcher and Coordinator of the Marine Geology and Geophysics Group, Universidade de Lisboa
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Professor, Curtin University
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Curtin University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Macroevolution and Macroecology Group, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow in Geology, Curtin University
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Research Fellow, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
