The long-ignored continent of Zealandia has now been mapped and officially recognized as Earth’s eighth continent. Stretching over 4.9 million square kilometers, most of Zealandia lies beneath the ...
The country's longest continuous bike trail – the Alps to Ocean – takes travellers on a 315km journey into the seismic-shifting saga of Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent. Launched in 2022 ...
"The work of the Lithoprobe research community has shown that the processes that continue to shape the continent today have been active through more than three billion years of Earth’s history." The ...
2024 in the journal Solid Earth. The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern ...
The continents that make up the Earth as we know it today looked a whole lot different hundreds of millions of years ago. In fact, they were all mashed together into a supercontinent called Pangea ...
Geologists have long viewed North America and Europe as separate continents, yet new studies suggest there might be more complexity beneath the surface of Earth’s oceans. Ongoing research has revealed ...
Alexandra Doten, former NASA, and Space Force consultant attempted to explain the formation of a sixth ocean as the African continent divided into two with the Great Lakes, the largest lakes on Earth, ...
Did you know that the driest continent on Earth is Antarctica? Many people think of deserts like the Sahara, but Antarctica receives even less precipitation. Some parts of it, like the McMurdo Dry ...
2 another team of scientists identified sunken tectonic slabs far from these boundaries in locations under continents' interiors and beneath oceans, where sunken plates had never been found before.
Like most of us, Earth has a lot going on under the surface ... tectonic slabs far from these boundaries in locations under continents’ interiors and beneath oceans, where sunken plates ...
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever ...