The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes ...
The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...
Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...
A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...
A new study reveals how continents are slowly peeling away, fuelling underwater volcanoes. Discover the "mantle wave" mechanism changing our view of Earth.