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10 geological discoveries that absolutely rocked 2020

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EXCERPTS: This year, scientists uncovered some of the Earth's most well-kept secrets. They found hidden rivers, chunks of lost continents and remnants of ancient rainforests, and they delved into the planet's ancient history using cutting-edge technologies. Who knows what they'll unearth next! While we wait to find out, here are 10 of the geological discoveries that rocked our world in 2020.

Historic supereruption at Yellowstone. The Yellowstone hotspot lurks beneath the national park's geysers and hot springs, and about 9 million years ago, the volcano exploded in two historic supereruptions, scientists found...

Monstrous blobs near Earth's core are bigger than we thought. Continent-size blobs of rock sit at the boundary of Earth's solid mantle and liquid outer core, and now, scientists think they might be bigger than we ever imagined...

Lost islands in the North Sea withstood massive tsunami. Roughly 8,000 years ago, a tsunami struck a plain between Great Britain and the Netherlands, submerging most of the region...

Earth's core is a billion years old. The Earth's solid inner core — a 1,500-mile-wide (2,442 kms) ball of iron — likely formed about 1 billion to 1.3 billion years ago, scientists estimate...

Piece of a lost continent found under Canada. About 150 million years ago, a now-lost continent broke up into enormous fragments — and one big chunk was recently discovered lurking under Canada...

Underwater rivers found near Australia. This year, scientists discovered massive rivers of cold, salty water that flow from the Australian coast out into the deep ocean...

Ancient rainforest found under Antarctic ice. Antarctica might be the last place you'd expect to find remnants of an ancient rainforest, but that's exactly what scientists found under the western side of the continent...

Ancient seabed buried 400 miles beneath China. A seabed that once lined the bottom of the Pacific Ocean was found buried hundreds of miles beneath China, where it continues to descend toward the Earth's mantle transition zone...

Lost tectonic plate gets resurrected? Scientists digitally reconstructed a tectonic plate and showed that its movement likely gave rise to an arc of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean some 60 million years ago. In the past, some geophysicists argued that the plate, known as Resurrection, never existed...

Towering coral structure dwarfs Empire State Building. The first detached coral reef discovered in more than 100 years stands taller than the Empire State Building... (MORE - details)
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