ALTHOUGH Madagascar is known to be the third largest island in the world, its actual size and extent is not very generally understood. It is easy to see how misconception on this point arises, for ...

“Madagascar had many more ancient geological and climatic events,” she says, “whereas in South Africa and Australia, it was very recently that you had some major climatic events, such as the ...

The new study uses geological evidence from Madagascar and Rodrigues, an island now part of Mauritius about 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) east of Madagascar, to construct a climatic record.

A geoscience study uncovered zircon evidence pointing to the possible remains of the lost continent of Lemuria under the ...

These developments will redefine Africa and the Indian Ocean. The finding comes in a new study by D. Sarah Stamps of the Department of Geosciences for the journal Geology.The breakup is a ...

Situated along Madagascar's west coast, Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve is home to impressive geological structures and a variety of endangered species. More than 328 miles of forests ...

Encarnacion is interested in a variety of tectonic and petrologic problems dealing with subduction, magmatism, island arc and continental crustal growth as well as ore deposits. His research has taken ...

image: Purdue Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Matthew Huber at the Geological and Nuclear Sciences Core Repository in New Zealand. He is sampling the historical record contained in cores ...

China and Madagascar strengthened their cooperation in Geosciences, as a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed on Wednesday among the University of Antananarivo, Beijing-based China ...

(via Vox) Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure.It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, ...

Africa is breaking apart: Continental shift will see new ocean form and Madagascar crumble TECTONIC shifts along the East African Rift System are slowly tearing the continent apart, geologists ...