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Scientists Warn: Ancient Oceanic Plate Is Breaking Apart Beneath Eurasia and Arabia
revealing how deep tectonic movements can influence mountains, basins, and seismic activity at the surface. The collision between the Arabian and Eurasian plates has been ongoing for tens of ...
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Subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismicity in the Makran Subduction Zone
This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...
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A New Ocean in the Making: East Africa’s Tectonic Shift Poised to Split the Continent
By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...
Say goodbye to what we know about the oceans: science warns of an alteration that could change everything
Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...
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‘10,000 billion tons sinking’: Earth’s crust is collapsing under a hidden force
Scientists have detected that the Neotethys oceanic plate is tearing apart horizontally, altering the region’s tectonic landscape in ways never seen before. For millions of years, the Arabian ...
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Slew of small tremors prevent major quakes, experts say
Pakistan falls on three major tectonic plates — the Arabian, Euro-Asian and Indian — which lift, subduct and provide energy and movement to each other, explains Muhammad Rehan, a geological ...