Sand ripples preserved for billions of years

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A United States Army Lieutenant was the first to forecast the deadly storms in the late 1800s. Then he was told to stop.

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A conversation with an expert in geomythology about a wild idea

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And one of them was putting on a show

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The massive formation is older than the continents

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By combining seismic, gravity and topographic data, a team of researchers from Italy, Switzerland, Germany and the United Kingdom found that several well-known subglacial basins in East Antarctica are part of a single fan-shaped province whose origins trace back to ancient continental stretching.

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Chemical traces preserved in ancient rocks indicate that marine environments were deteriorating long before the catastrophe that wiped out vast numbers of species at the end of the Triassic period, around 201 million years ago.

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