Geologists have demonstrated new scientific results to support a new theory on the earliest phase of continental formation. Geologists from the Universities of Bonn and Cologne have demonstrated new ...

A continent the size of Greenland has been found buried deep beneath Southern Europe, reshaping how scientists understand the ...

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The 'lost continent' of Zealandia, which is submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, experienced a major upheaval about 35 to 50 million years ago. According to findings published Feb. 6 in the journal ...

For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

The formation of the Earth’s continents occurred during a fiery afterbirth known as the Archean Eon, which stretched from 4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago. It was in this bubbling cauldron of ...

Scientists have eliminated one possible origin for Earth's continents. Despite the importance of Earth's continents, the huge pieces of the planet's crust that divide its oceans, very little is known ...

Geologists have corrected a mix-up that made an ancient geological structure in the central U.S. seem hundreds of miles shorter than it really is. The biggest failed rift known to geologists is even ...

The earth is a poor archivist. The rigid tectonic plates of its outer layers are continuously in motion, sliding over one another to swallow almost all records of the past, melting them into the ...

In a bizarre geological twist of fate, researchers report that the very continents on which we humans call home were likely a byproduct of four-billion-year-old giant Earth impactors incredibly ...

Zealandia made global headlines earlier this year, when scientists announced that it counts as a new continent. Now it is coming under closer scientific scrutiny. We are currently halfway through an ...