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The landmass known as Gondwana comprised most of what is present-day Antarctica, South America, Africa, Madagascar, Australia-New Guinea, and New Zealand, as well as Arabia and the Indian subcontinent of the Northern hemisphere.

Some 250 to 180 million years ago, it formed part of the single supercontinent Pangea.

Now, Eagles, working with Matthais König from the Alfred [...]

I have recently discovered several interesting phenomena indicating Competitive Solving and Crystallization in soils of northern Sweden, the most interesting outcome is the conclusion that non-nutrients like titanium, lead, barium and zirconium cause a release of nutrients like magnesium, calcium, iron and phosphor yielding a positive plant nutrition-effect. This resulted in the theory of competitive [...]

This discovery can trace its roots back to the expeditions to the Black Rock Desert to train for the search and recovery of the first amateur rocket launch to space.

The page presents evidence for a 30×40 mile elliptical impact crater that surrounds part of the Black Rock Desert. Observations presented include rock samples, photographs [...]

The paper by a Durham University-led team and published in the February issue of GSA Today, reveals that the eruption was almost certainly manmade and caused by the drilling of a nearby exploratory borehole looking for gas, reinforcing the possible explanation in a UN report from July last year.

The mud volcano, known locally as `Lusi’, [...]

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