The breakup of the South Atlantic region, which led to the separation of the African and South American continents, is a well-known global phenomenon. In fact, the famous continental drift theory put ...

Six seismologists and a civil servant, charged with manslaughter for failing to predict a 2009 earthquake that killed 308 people in the Apennine Mountain city of L’Aquila, in Italy, will serve six ...

Planet Earth is constantly evolving. For billions of years, continents have shifted, smashed into others, reformed, and ...

I’ve seen pictures of Pangaea, the giant land mass that eventually separated into the continents we know today. But why were the continents smushed together like that in the first place? What made the ...

Physicists in the US have performed a simple table-top experiment that could provide new insight into why the Earth’s continents drift apart and then move back together over several hundred-million ...

Were all continents once snuggled together in a mammoth land mass surrounded by a single shimmering sea? Did the continents begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, ...

THE theory that the continents have shifted their positions during geological time and, possibly, are still in motion has lately excited much discussion. The principal obstacle to its acceptance is ...