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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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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 ...
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A new ocean? Scientists track dramatic (but slow) changes near Africa.
A similar process created the nearby Saudi Arabian peninsula, according to scientists. Scientists using GPS and satellite mapping to track how the tectonic plates underlying Africa are separating ...
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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Scientists discover massive rift beneath Turkey stretching to Iran
are the result of the collision that occurred in ancient times between the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates. "Towards Turkey, the depression becomes much shallower, indicating that the oceanic ...
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This Iraq region is sinking into the Earth (very slowly)
The Zagros Mountain range runs along the border of the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates.Image: Matyas/Pond5 Images/IMAGO Research results can be used for earthquake prediction. The findings ...