Tag: paleogeography
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Crumbling Supercontinent Might Have Sparked Life on Earth
How a Shattering Planet May Have Jump-started Life Long before humans pondered the origins of life, Earth’s own tectonic engine was busy reshaping the planet in dramatic ways. A new line of thought among scientists proposes that the crumbling of a long-lived supercontinent could have set off a cascade of environmental changes that ultimately kickstarted…
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Red Sea Dried, Then Flooded by Indian Ocean: 6.2 Million-Year Event
The Drying and the Flood: A dramatic Red Sea rebirth New research from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) reveals one of Earth’s most dramatic environmental episodes: the Red Sea dried completely about 6.2 million years ago and was suddenly reflooded by a catastrophic flood from the Indian Ocean. Using seismic imaging, microfossil…