http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/06/where-continents-divide-and-rocks-rise-from-the-deep/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/06/where-continents-divide-and-rocks-rise-from-the-deep/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:04:55 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=20708 Along the Woodlark Rift in eastern Papua New Guinea, continents are breaking apart, “like a snake opening its mouth.” Geologic processes that are still a mystery are actively stretching the crust and pushing huge masses of rock, formed under immense pressures as deep as 100 kilometers below, to the surface.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/12/06/where-continents-divide-and-rocks-rise-from-the-deep/feed/ 0