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Bookmark or Share- Supercontinents: Earth’s Radical Story of Birth and DestructionFinally, during supercontinent assembly, they argued that collisional orogenesis should increase to a maximum, global sea level should first rise and then fall as subduction consumes first the old and then the young floor of the interior oceans, and atmospheric CO 2 levels should decline and cause global climates to deteriorate. Although data ...
- Nance Identifies Hidden Clues to Ancient Supercontinents, Confirms ...Ohio University geologist Dr. Damian Nance identifies evidence for Pannotia, a supercontinent predating Pangea, by examining the patterns of worldwide mountain building and rifting as the Earth’s land masses collide and break up, along with accompanying destruction and creation of climates and habitats in the wake of those tectonic changes. […]
- Work by Three Retired Geology Professors Cited in News StoriesA geoscience magazine (GEOExPro) write about The Supercontinent Cycle: Patterns and Impacts: …This line of thinking was taken up by Thomas Worsley of Ohio University at Athens and his colleagues R. Damian Nance and Judith Moody (his wife) in the 1980s. They argued that tectonic and magmatic activities, as well as climatic shifts, sea-level ...
- Nance Discusses Existence of Supercontinent Pannotia with Yale NewsYale News covers the debate about the existence of supercontinent Pannotia, posited by R. Damian Nance, in an article headlined Pannotia: A supercontinent on trial. Nance, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geology at Ohio University, is now a visiting fellow at Yale. In separate articles published recently by The Geological Society […]
- Nance: 'All Hell Breaking Loose on Earth' Indicates Another ...Earth’s landmasses have joined together into supercontinents and then split apart again as many as six times in the planet’s history. Pangea is the most famous supercontinent, but at least five pre-Pangean supercontinents — Rodinia, Columbia, Kenorland, Ur and Vaalbara — have been widely championed, mainly based on paleomagnetic data.
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