Australia Lurching Forward and Separating Slowly (IMAGE)

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Australia Lurching Forward and Separating Slowly

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Australia lurching forward 95 million years ago after slowly separating from Antarctica for tens of millions of years before. The new study by Brune et al. explains the physics of this process.

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Credit: Sascha Brune.

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