Tagged: land change

NASA researchers have found evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume, located deep below West Antarctica’s Marie Byrd Land, may help to explain why the ice sheet collapsed rapidly in an earlier era of rapid climate change, and why it is so...

– It certainly isn’t every day that researchers discover a new continent, but now it has happened. Zealandia is the name of our planet’s eighth continent discovered underwater beneath New Zealand. The vast landmass is believed to be a piece of the ancient super-continent Gondwana....