Scientists have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why 'stable' parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.

Ever sit up late at night, dazed and pondering about ancient earth? Like, what was it like when the dinosaurs roamed the world? And, most importantly, with the tectonic shifting of the continents, ...

Did you know there are seven massive landmasses on Earth called continents? These include Asia, Africa, North America, South ...

Argoland, once part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, was long thought to be lost. But scientists recently discovered it splintered apart in Southeast Asia. The lost continent may have broken ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on how ...

Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed- - a revised origin story that doesn't require the start of plate tectonics or any external factor to ...

The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...

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