The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

EARTH may have had huge continents that “melted away” billions of years before our current continents existed. The so-called “lost continents” are said to have risen up out of the sea before being ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that a newly identified niobium-rich deposit in central Australia formed during the early ...

The ancient supercontinent of Rodinia turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests. Rodinia was a supercontinent that preceded the more ...

The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, ...

In addition to being one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, the Grand Canyon is a living history book, revealing great geological epochs on its various strata. Now, researchers in Colorado ...

In Dante’s Peak, unexpected tectonic activity results in a massive volcanic eruption which threatens the lives and livelihoods of the people living nearby. It’s the perfect setting for a story in ...

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The United States hasn’t always had the closest relationship with China or Russia. But give us a few hundred million years, and we could be a lot more unified: A new prediction for the motion of the ...

The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, ...