Volcanoes can be an indication of a planet that can support life. There are studies that show that lightning together with the chemicals volcanoes produce may have provided the spark that produced life on early Earth. This experiment called the Miller-Urey experiment has been shown to students for years from 1953 to mimic the chemical [...]
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How Did the Earth Get It’s Water?
How did the Earth come to possess water? Did some alien ship have too much and dump it or is there some simpler explanation? Through a process that lasted millions of years the Earth was made from a cloud of dust and gas. At the later stages of formation the Earth was an extremely hot [...]
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Volcanoes on Earth and Beyond
Volcanoes are one of those great forces of nature that we take almost for granted on Earth. I am not sure that I would take it for granted if I lived right next to a volcano but on the overall scheme of things they are part of the Earth’s make up and mold the Earth [...]
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Plate Tectonics, Hold on! The Surface of the Earth Moves
So why do mountain ranges form, earthquakes happen, volcanoes erupt and Islands appear? Have they been here since the beginning of time perhaps created by a roving asteroid or comet Or perhaps there was a massive collision of two planets when the Earth got formed creating islands and mountains. This is all complete rubbish of [...]
