It should not be a surprise that East Africa was a hotbed of evolution, because over the last five million years everything about the landscape has changed. The extraordinary forces of plate tectonics…
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Scientists have discovered the elixir to the world’s most renown mountains’ exceedingly long health: landslides and erosion…
Earthquakes, volcanoes and movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates influence coral diversity patterns more than short-term environmental changes, a new study by Australian researchers has found. The study…
Exactly 100 years ago, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift – the idea that the continents of Earth are gradually drifting apart. And now we have some compelling…
Significant changes in the motion of Earth’s tectonic plates has been found to occur less frequently than was previously…
On an exploratory mission to discover more about the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, underwater volcanoes and mineral-laden…
Zircon crystals from ancient rocks in Greenland suggest the movement of plate tectonics to have occurred 3.2 billion years…
Geological features of the Great Rift Valley, birthplace of the human species, may be much older than previously believed…
Scientists have used gravitational measurements from the low-flying Goce satellite to map the boundary between the earth’s…
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Professor of Geology, West Virginia University
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Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
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Honorary Fellow in Structural Geology and Tectonics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Geophysics and Remote Sensing, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee
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Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University
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Distinguished Professor of Geology, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Geology, University of Adelaide
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Associate professor, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Geoscience, Queensland University of Technology
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary researcher, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
