This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

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

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to ... plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

New crust is continually being pushed away from divergent boundaries (where sea-floor spreading occurs), increasing Earth's surface. But the Earth isn't getting any bigger. What happens ...

The ocean rises over the edges of the continent, creating the passive margins. They are called passive because they are not near a plate boundary, and there is very little geologic activity there - no ...

Dynamics and microphysics of orographic precipitation (since 2006) Dynamics of radar fine-lines in the pre-convective continental boundary layer (since 2002) We used data collected in IHOP ...

If a continent is caught in a convergent zone between plates, then the crust can become very thick, pushing up mountain ranges such as the Himalayan belt. Physical boundaries such as rivers ...

The ocean-continent boundary proved to be difficult to locate precisely. The average crustal thickness (about 6.2 Km), and the mean pressure at the bottom of the lithosphere are very close to those ...