While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

If this was the case, then mountains would be spread evenly over the Earth’s surface. We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers sugges ...

Technology and modern global politics are creating new challenges. Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental and oceanic regions continue to evolve. During the past decade ...

The breakup of ancient supercontinents would have had major effects on the evolution of living organisms. Does it explain the difference in the diversification of reptiles and mammals?

Continental Drift In 1912 Alfred Wegener proposed that the continents had originated in the breakup of one supercontinent. His idea has not been widely accepted, hut new evidence suggests that the ...

where he put forth the idea of "continental displacement" or what later was called continental drift. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married (to the daughter of Germany's leading ...

As for Canada, Trump trolled Trudeau by referring to him as “governor” instead of prime minister and has called for Canada to be America’s “51st state.” On Tuesday, Trum ...

When Scrat accidentally provokes a continental cataclysm with a storm, Manny is separated from Ellie and Peaches on an iceberg with Diego, Sid and Granny but he promises that he will find a way to ...