Team led by Purdue professor first to record key event that breaks continents apart

Researchers have captured for the first time a geological event considered key in shaping the Earth's landscape. An international research team led by Eric Calais, a Purdue University professor of geophysics, was able to measure ground displacements as two tectonic plates in Africa moved apart and molten rock pushed its way toward the surface during the first so-called 'dyking event' ever recorded within the planet's continental crust...

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