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Where Do Rubies Come From?

Geology Page - July 2, 2016

A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum (aluminium oxide). The red color is caused mainly by...

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The Nazca Plate is creeping under the South American Plate.

Water pressure a critical factor for mega-earthquakes

April 6, 2018

A picture of Amundsen Sea Embayment in West Antarctica with the ice sliced to show the bedrock and the earth cut to show the crust (brown) the bottom of the lithosphere (red area) and the mantle (yellow).

The bedrock below West Antarctica is rising surprisingly fast

June 24, 2018

Tiny Accelerometers Create Europe’s First Urban Seismic Network

March 21, 2016

Strange formation on Colorado Rockies sheds light on Earth’s past

September 28, 2014

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