The Rio Grande Rift April 13, 2012 | New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources "The river’s course through southern Colorado and New Mexico is controlled by a geologic feature... The Beginning of Plate Tectonics April 18, 2012 | ScienceNews An article on the ScienceNews website titled "Stop-and-go plate tectonics" explores how the process of... Instability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet May 16, 2012 | University of Texas at Austin "Using ice-penetrating radar instruments flown on aircraft, a team of scientists from the U.S. and... Landslides and Plate Tectonics May 30, 2012 | University of Washington "Some of the steepest mountain slopes in the world got that way because of the... Life on a Whale Skeleton a Mile Below the Antarctic March 19, 2013 | Los Angeles Times A 35-foot-long whale skeleton on the Antarctic sea floor - nearly one mile below the... Microbes Deep in the Oceanic Crust January 12, 2012 | National Science Foundation "Of all the habitable parts of our planet, one ecosystem still remains largely unexplored and... Drilling into Lakes Deep Beneath Antarctic Ice December 25, 2012 | National Geographic Three teams of scientists from Russia, Britain and the United States are drilling through Antarctic... Earthquakes Within the Antarctic Ice Sheet September 14, 2012 | Penn State "Analysis of small, repeating earthquakes in an Antarctic ice sheet may not only lead to... |