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New Zealand grants a mountain personhood, recognizing Taranaki Maunga as sacred to the Indigenous Māori people
The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...
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New Zealand Is Home To One Of The World's Most Dangerous Islands With An Active Volcano
Despite its frequent exclusions from world maps, New Zealand is one of the world's ... within the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a large belt of tectonic subduction zones that circumnavigates much ...
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New Geological Map Of Earth’s Lost Continent ‘Zealandia’ Published
A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia ... suggesting that rivers flowing from volcanic highlands filled up tectonic basins when Zelandia was dry land. The highlands were ...
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New Theory On Why We Are Alone In The Cosmos—Tectonic Plates
The new research suggests that the necessity for large oceans, continents and plate tectonics—the latter lasting for over 500 million years—should also be taken into account. Map of the Word ...
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The Earth's structure and plate tectonics
The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...