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Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ancient supercontinent. More than 800 million years ago, tectonic rifting ...

Swin-Chart is a Swin Transformer-based model for chart classification across various datasets. It achieved first place in the chart classification task at the ICDAR 2023 CHART Infographics competition ...

The top 10's other debut, Ed Sheeran's Play, has experienced a softer launch: The album debuts at No. 5 with 71,000 equivalent album units, 51,000 of which come from sales. And, as we often note ...

ABSTRACT: Located southeast of the city of Ngaoundéré (Adamawa Plateau) within the continental section of the Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL), the village of Dibi has been the scene of numerous volcanic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Magma becomes lava when it rises up to the Earth’s surface, like when the Nyiragongo volcano erupted in the Democratic Republic ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is the youngest, highest, and largest plateau on Earth. Its formation resulted from the closure of the New Tethys Ocean, following the collision between the Indian Plate and ...

Farley, K A; Stack, K M; Shuster, D L; Horgan, B H N; Hurowitz, J A; Tarnas, J D; Simon, J I; Sun, V Z; Scheller, E L; Moore, K R; McLennan, S M; Vasconcelos, P M ...

In a recent study, geologists say Michigan is home to the oldest known rock in the nation. Watersmeet gneiss is found in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Minnesota's Morton gneiss previously held the title ...