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Baffin Island provides insights into origin of Earth’s water

November 13, 2015

Strange hollow ball-like structures found in 80-million-year-old fossils

May 12, 2020

Angelenos play below derricks at Huntington Beach pier, c. 1930-40. In the early decades of the twentieth century, LA residents accepted ground subsidence and small earthquakes as the cost of producing oil. But discontent began to rumble in the late 1930s. Rapid exploitation of Wilmington, one of the largest oil fields in California, and the Huntington Beach field caused Long Beach harbor to sink, buckling railway lines and forcing the city to build higher piers. Credit: Orange County Archives

Oil extraction likely triggered mid-century earthquakes in L.A.

November 22, 2018

The ups and downs of early atmospheric oxygen

February 20, 2014

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The modern Seattle fault zone cuts directly through the densely populated Puget lowlands, including Seattle and its metro area. Fifty million years ago, the continent tore in two here, setting the geologic stage for the modern faults, according to a new Tectonics study. Credit: Washington Geological Survey.

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