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Plate tectonics may have started on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

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Plate tectonics may have started on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

Rocks from a 3.2-billion-year-old formation in Australia show changes in the direction of their magnetism over time that suggest plate tectonics started earlier than we thought

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A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

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A giant raft of rock may once have floated across Mars’s ancient ocean

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Putorana plateau and mountains in Siberia, Russie

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Rock peeling off continents may have triggered biggest mass extinction

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surface of Venus

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Strange lines on Venus may be folded stacks of lava eroded by wind

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Yutu 2

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China’s rover has discovered what lies beneath the moon’s far side

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See the exquisite inner world of the gemstone crazy lace agate

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See the exquisite inner world of the gemstone crazy lace agate

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Exoplanet

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Huge Earth-like worlds could host reservoirs of water deep underground

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Paul Smith

The adventures of a geologist: From shipwrecks to mapping the Arctic

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leaf-like rangeomorphs

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The bizarre plant-like animals that say life’s big bang never happened

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Surface of Venus

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Strange volcanic domes on Venus may be made from hot crystal mush

Venus has a few weird domes that seem to be different from the rest of its surface, which may be because they are full of crystals formed from cooling magma

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Forget pristine habitats - for biodiversity save abandoned quarries

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Super-deep diamonds contain traces of a pristine chunk of early Earth

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Earth's magnetic poles probably won't flip within our lifetime

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Plate tectonics began nearly 2 billion years before we thought

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