Susanna Richards gets blown off course by more than one ‘special relationship’ in last week’s Independent ...

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 ...

Few could tell you that Continental Drift was the fourth Ice Age or really recount anything that happened in it, and yet, it ...

Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental and oceanic regions ... we need a workable agreement on its custodianship. The surface of Earth is broken into large rigid plates that ...

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 ...

It's difficult to imagine a process more gradual than continental drift. But some scientists say that, slow or not, this repositioning of the world's landmasses was disastrous for dinosaurs.