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Analysis of how long erratics have been exposed on ice-free ground in the hypothesized “Late Pleistocene ice-free corridor migration route” suggests that route was not fully open until about 13,800 years ago, and the ice sheets “may have been 1,500...
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To date, Earth is the only planet we know of that has continents. Exactly how they formed and evolved is unclear, but we do know – because the edges of continents thousands of miles apart match up – that, at one...
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It’s difficult for most people to grasp the immensity of time as it’s viewed by archeologists, much less as it’s viewed by geologist or cosmologists. One way often used by those scientists to model time in terms that others can...
Read MoreWithout aerial views of the Ice Age Flood lands, we would still be debating the origins and nature of these features. Satellite and aircraft photos provide a broad overview of the channeled scablands, but in recent years, drones have given...
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Recent discoveries in Greenland are reshaping our understanding of massive flood events beneath ice sheets, offering compelling new perspectives on the formation of some Ice Age Floods-related features. Two recent studies highlight an unprecedented sub-glacial flood in 2014, where a...
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The Giant’s Causeway is a rock formation that is so otherworldly that it seems like it was made by supernatural beings. But these incredible hexagonal columns of rock aren’t the result of giant masons. They formed through a quirk of...
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Background The 4.5 billion-year-old Earth is the only known astronomical object to harbor life, giving rise to billions of species of stunning diversity, including ours, Homo sapiens. It has formed the backdrop of an estimated 110 billion human lives. At 13.1 septillion pounds and...
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Developing an Ice Age Floods Animation Through Science, Partnership, and Interpretation Explaining the Missoula Floods has never been simple. The floods reshaped landscapes across much of the Pacific Northwest, yet they occurred thousands of years ago, unfolded repeatedly rather than...
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Some 240 million years ago, an enormous supercontinent known as Pangea encompassed nearly all of Earth’s extant land mass, Pangea bore little resemblance to our contemporary planet, but thanks to a recently released interactive map interested parties can now superimpose...
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During the last ice age, humans ventured into two vast and completely unknown continents: North and South America. For nearly a century, researchers thought they knew how this wild journey occurred: The first people to cross the Bering Land Bridge,...
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By reconstructing the sea level history of the Bering Strait, scientists found that the strait remained flooded and the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia to North America did not emerge until around 35,700 years ago, less than 10,000 years before...
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Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth. It wiped out an estimated 50% to over 90% of animal species, particularly...
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