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Recent research shows that more than 200 million years ago, Greece was part of a lost continent scientists call "Greater Adria."

In his generations-spanning new book, the anthropologist tracks the story of Jewish life in Latin America through the travails of one family. 

Shaky At Best: The New Zealand Earthquake Forecasting Page With Links to Pseudoscience At first glance, NZ Earthquake Community is a reputable Facebook page. It’s filled with content from GeoNet and advice about earthquake safety. It’s also only six clicks away from a crackpot’s RV in New Mexico.  Information on the page comes from two sources. If you follow the GeoNet rabbithole, you end up at the desks of GNS Science and Civil Defense. But if you follow the “windmap” rabbithole, you end up right next to 9/11 conspiracies and climate change denial. If you didn’t know any better,...

GSA Today Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent Cover Image 2 GNS Science, P.O. Box 30368, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand 3 SGEES, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington 6140, New Zealand 4 Service Géologique de Nouvelle Calédonie, B.P. 465, Nouméa 98845, New Caledonia 5 School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Abstract A 4.9 Mkm 2 region of the southwest Pacific Ocean is made up of continental crust. The region has elevated bathymetry relative to surrounding oceanic crust, diverse and silica-rich rocks, and relatively thick and low-velocity crust...