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A map of Earth's gravity

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There's a gravity 'hole' in the Indian Ocean and now we may know why

Earth appears to have less mass beneath a certain part of the Indian Ocean compared with the rest of the planet. Plumes of magma at the location could explain why

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Dried-up lake may explain why California is 'overdue' major earthquake

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Why is China drilling a hole more than 10,000 metres deep?

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Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

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The evidence was found in a group of sedimentary and volcanic rocks in western Australia

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Earliest evidence of a meteorite hitting Earth found in Australia

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Reconstruction of Earth's surface 90 million years ago, showing North America, Europe and Africa fragmented

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Watch how the continents have shifted over the past 100 million years

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An aerial shot of Li River and Mashan Mountain in Yangshuo County, Guilin

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Earth's 'geological thermostat' is too slow to prevent climate change

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Illustration of Earth's structure showing the core

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Earthquakes suggest Earth's core has started spinning more slowly

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The Slumgullion landslide

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Landslides can be triggered by small changes in atmospheric pressure

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Electron microscope image of hexagonal diamond in a meteorite

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Strange hexagonal diamonds found in meteorite from another planet

Diamonds found in four meteorites in north-west Africa probably came from an ancient dwarf planet, and they are expected to be harder than Earth diamonds

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A second asteroid may have struck Earth when the dinosaurs died out

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Ancient Aboriginal rock art may reveal how Australia's climate changed

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Meteorite from Mars traced to crater where it was ejected by impact

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Reclassification of Earth's minerals reveals 4000 more than we thought

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