The Appalachian Mountains, with their ancient peaks and timeworn ridges, are a familiar sight in Eastern North America. But ...

A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...

A Spectacular Geological Failure Despite the scale and intensity of the rifting process, it stopped abruptly after about 100,000 years — a geological blink of an eye. The exact reasons why the ...

"Widespread continental rifting and super-continent breakup could produce massive, long-term CO 2 emissions and contribute to prolonged greenhouse conditions like those of the Cretaceous," Lee added.

The rifting of continents involves faulting (tectonism) and magmatism, which reflect the strain-rate and temperature dependent processes of solid–state deformation and decompression melting ...

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Lava flows from the 2005 Mando Hararo eruption in Ethiopia. Alright, I had been attempting to ignore this story because it was, well, a little uninteresting at first, but it apparently has legs so ...

The mystery of how continents break up could be solved with clues from the rifting earth of Ethiopia, researchers find. Since the 1960s, scientists have known that over the course of millions of ...

On the whole, “Rifting Apart” is a victory for Ash vs Evil Dead and its band of misfit heroes, if not because they transcend the walls of death to reunite with each other, then because it ...