A long-standing fact widely accepted among the scientific community has been recently refuted, which now has major implications on our understanding of how Earth has evolved.Until recently, most geologists had determined the land connecting North and South America, the Isthmus of Panama, had formed 3.5 million years ago. But new data shows that this geological […]
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When continents connected ?
June 14th, 2015 
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No Comments »Mantle plumes crack continents
September 9th, 2014 Riffin In some parts of the Earth, material rises upwards like a column from the boundary layer of Earth’s core and the lower mantle to just below Earth’s crust hundreds of kilometres above. Halted by the resistance of the hard crust and lithospheric mantle, the flow of material becomes wider, taking on a mushroom-like shape. Specialists […]
Posted in Featured Post Tags: continents, Mantle plumes, Riffin T Sajeev, Russel T Sajeev, WFS, world fossil society No Comments »New ‘Embryonic’ Subduction Zone Found
June 22nd, 2013 Riffin A new subduction zone forming off the coast of Portugal heralds the beginning of a cycle that will see the Atlantic Ocean close as continental Europe moves closer to America. Published in Geology, new research led by Monash University geologists has detected the first evidence that a passive margin in the Atlantic ocean is becoming […]
