Tag Archives: Geology

‘Big Bang’ of Species May Be Explained by Continental Shift

Interesting observations regarding the “abrupt” increase in animal species several hundred million years ago. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Kelly Dickerson  A sudden explosion of new life-forms hundreds of millions of years ago may have been triggered … Continue reading

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Confirmed: Oldest Fragment of Early Earth is 4.4 Billion Years Old

The earth is 4.4 billion years old? Don’t tell that to a fundamentalist Christian, as he or she will argue with you until the end of days, insisting that the entire universe, not earth, but the universe is only 6000 … Continue reading

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Why Earth’s Inner and Outer Cores Rotate in Opposite Directions

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Laura Poppick, Staff Writer The earth’s magnetic field controls the direction and speed at which Earth’s inner and outer cores spin, even though they move in opposite directions, new research … Continue reading

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