Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation. The original is here. From the 1950s until recently, we thought we had a clear idea of how continents form. Most people will have heard of ...

Three main processes are known to generate the thick, stable, ancient rock that forms the roots of a continent, according to geologists. Diving of one tectonic plate beneath the other (which ...

If you were to arrive in our solar system never having seen it before, you’d be impressed with variety. Giant gas planets with rings, moons spanning from minuscule to enormous, icy comets that hurtle ...

Introduced in 1912, Albert Wegener’s theory of continental drift is one of the most well-known Earth theories out there. In it, Wegener suggests the earth’s land started as one mass, a supercontinent ...

Scientists at the University of Southampton 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 ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth's biomass. However, we still don't have firm answers to some basic questions ...

How many continents can you count on one hand? Chones From the 1950s until recently, we thought we had a clear idea of how continents form. Most people will have heard of plate tectonics: moving ...

Africa's future coastline might look a lot different...millions of years from now, that is. Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting ...

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster than researchers previously understood. Scientists now have direct evidence ...

Our planet is made of continents and that makes us the oddball of the solar system. No other planet has continents like we do ... and it is unclear why. If you were to arrive in our solar system never ...