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50,000 students and counting: Professor Terry Swanson’s 34 years teaching ‘Rocks for Jocks’

This past spring, Swanson passed the milestone of having 50,000 students take the class from him over the years. It’s a number larger than the population of the British Columbia town he grew up in. He ...
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Groundbreaking discovery: Pacific tectonic plate rupture recorded for the first time

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.
Nature

Chinese researchers reveal unexplored section of mysterious Arctic Ocean ridge

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...
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Scientists record first-of-its-kind tectonic plate rupture within the Pacific Ocean

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.
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A gulf separating Africa and Asia is still pulling apart — 5 million years after scientists thought it had stopped

The Arabian and African tectonic plates failed to pull apart 28 million years ago at the Gulf of Suez, but the area hasn't ...