Articles for tag: CatastrophicEvents, DynamicEarth, GeologicalHistory, MassExtinction

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Our Planet’s Geological History is a Tale of Catastrophic Beauty

Suhail Ahmed

Stand back far enough in time, and Earth stops looking like a stable blue marble and starts to resemble a long-running disaster movie with a strangely hopeful ending. Our continents have been smashed together and ripped apart, oceans have vanished, and entire forms of life have flourished only to be erased in moments of planetary ...