Tom Gernon, professor of earth science at the University of Southampton ... “Meanwhile, the rifting event also sets about a ‘deep mantle wave’ that travels along the continent’s base ...

Aligarh: The Department of Geology, Aligarh Muslim University organised two popular talks by Prof. N. V. Chalapathi Rao, Director of the National Centre for Earth Science Studies, Ministry of Earth ...

Phethean noted that “rifting and microcontinent formation ... Phethean describes the discovery as the Earth Science equivalent of finding the Lost City of Atlantis because his team uncovered ...

Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers ... colliding to build mountains or rifting apart to form new seafloor. Continents are composed of relatively light blocks that float high on ...

"This rifting has thinned the crust and brought hot material from deep down in the Earth - from hundreds of ... One of the great advances in polar science in the past decade is the recognition ...