Pacific plate's rotation gave Alaska's Aleutian Islands a later-life lift

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Jun 26, 2026, 12:40 pm51 ptsTrending
New research by Brown University geologists confirms that the Aleutian Islands, the archipelago stretching from Alaska to Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, experienced a massive geological uplift between 5 million and 7 million years ago. The researchers conclude that the uplift—a rising of the Earth's crust that…

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