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Scientists say Earth’s crust is sinking beneath central Turkey in a strange circular pattern, and they believe they finally know whyScientists have discovered a 'bullseye' of rapid sinking in Turkey's Konya Basin. This unusual land subsidence is linked to deep tectonic a...- Deep Beneath Türkiye, Geologists Mapped a Sinking Slab Reshaping the CrustScientists discovered a dense rock mass sinking into Earth's mantle below central Turkiye. This process, called lithospheric dripping, expl...
- Why a Major US River Flows “Uphill”: 150 Year Mystery SolvedA century-old geological puzzle of the Green River cutting through the Uinta Mountains is solved. New research reveals deep Earth processes...
- If Land Can Rise and Sink, What Other Landscapes Might Be Fooling Us?Beneath Earth's surface, powerful internal forces continuously shape landscapes, a fact often overlooked. Deep lithospheric processes and m...
- Why This River Didn’t Go Around the Mountain, Scientists May Finally KnowA century-old geological puzzle about the Green River carving through the Uinta Mountains is solved. A new research suggests the mountains ...
- The ground feels solid but deep below, Earth is slowly changingBeneath our seemingly stable world, Earth's deep interior is actively shifting. Scientific research reveals that dense rock slowly "drips" ...
- Nubian: The world's newest continent may be formed as Africa could split into two; here are the countries that form the new continentA shocking development has just emerged out and has come to light that a brand new continent might end up forming pretty soon as Africa is ...
- Well being of environmentThe well-being of the environment has a bearing on our well- being. Being the human face of the environment, we have to restore its health ...
- What created the continents, the landmasses that are homes to humans? New evidence points to giant asteroidsGiant impacts blast out huge volumes of material almost instantaneously.
- Bihar begins process to assess presence of oil reserves in Samastipur, BuxarThe state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Limited has applied for the grant of PELs for Buxar and Samastipur for oil explorati...
- Foreshocks, swarms caused recent earthquakes in India, says Geological Survey of India officialDr Sandip Som, the deputy director general of GSI, also said that foreshocks -- mild tremor preceding earthquakes -- or swarm activities --...
- Why Himalayas are hit by bigger earthquakes foundThe finding by researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland provides a more complete view of the risk of earthquakes in mountainous regions.
- India, Australia to explore mineral depositsKolkata, Oct 23 (IANS) The Geological Survey of India (GSI) is partnering with its Australian counterparts to unlock the mineral potential ...
- 'Great valley' larger than Grand Canyon found on MercuryThe most likely explanation for Mercury's great valley is long-wavelength buckling of the planet's outermost shell in response to global co...
- 'Great valley' found on Mercury indicates shrinking of planetWashington, Nov 17 (IANS) Scientists have discovered a "great valley" in the southern hemisphere of Mercury, providing more evidence that t...
- Oceans may contain large reserve of hydrogen gasTotal H2 production occurring beneath the oceans is at least an order of magnitude larger than production occurring under continents, the m...
- Earth's internal heat driving Greenland's ice to meltGreenland's lithosphere has hot depths which originate in its distant geological past and cause the island's ice to rapidly flow and melt f...
- Minister Narendra Tomar launches Operation Khanij Khoj by the Geological Survey to aid mineral explorationAs part of the overall initiative, efforts also underway to put some 6000 geological reports in digital format in the public domain soon mi...
- Earthquakes unveil deep rock structure under East Asia with 3-D simulationsResearchers said the findings could shed light on the fate of the continental plates beneath the Tibetan Plateau, which is 5 km above the s...
- Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh sitting on bed of diamonds: ReportIs there a diamond field that runs in a wide swathe under the earth’s crust across Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu? There may well be.
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