in 1 billion years
End of the drying up of the oceans: all the water that was on the surface is filtered into the subsoil and into the mantle which is no longer hot enough to re-emit it to the surface in the form of steam. Even life in
End of the drying up of the oceans: all the water that was on the surface is filtered into the subsoil and into the mantle which is no longer hot enough to re-emit it to the surface in the form of steam. Even life in
The supercontinent Pangea Ultima is formed from the union of Austro-Antarctica-Eurafrasia and the Americas; the hypothesis is by Christopher Scotese
The Austro-Antarctica-Eurafrasia supercontinent is formed, from the union of Austro-Eurafrasia and Antartica
The supercontinent Austro-Eurafrasia is formed, from the union of Eurafrasia and Australia
The supercontinent Eurafrasia is formed, from the union of Africa, Europe and Asia
The geologist Walter Alvarez, and the famous quantum physicist Luis Alvarez, publish the article “Extraterrestrial Cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction”, or the discovery of the reason for the extinction of the dinosaurs, attributed to the impact of a meteorite, evidence originating from samples found in
Geologist Walter Alvarez gets a job in Berkeley, where his father also works, the famous quantum physicist Luis Alvarez, who, in addition to having made a fundamental contribution to the invention of the atomic bomb and particle accelerators, also revealed, through muon detectors, which the
Tranquility Base, Sea of ??Tranquility, Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin collect on the lunar soil, among the many rock samples, also (Fe2 +, Mg) Ti2 O5. The mineral will be unknown previously, and will be called Armalcolite, from the initials of Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
Centralia, Pennsylvania. The underground carboniferous field catches fire and burns slowly. After half a century, the fire has not yet been put out and the whole area has been practically abandoned.
The American Mohole program (from the name of the Croatian scientist Andrija Mohorovicic, who discovered the existence of the border between the crust and the mantle at about 35Km below Europe) is developed, without success, which, through deep perforations, seeks the beginning of the mantle
In Hebgen Lake, near Yellowstone, an entire side of the mountain collapses (80 million tons of rock), 28 campers are killed
The German meteorologist Alfred Wegener realizes that the profiles of Brazil and Africa coincide and concludes that the continents must have moved, and who once was a mega continent that he calls Pangea.
Humphrey Davy discovers aluminum (the fourth most common element on the earth’s crust)