This is understandable, given that knowledge about the Earth's tectonic plates was formed during a period when we also discovered fossil fuel reserves offshore from continental shelves.

A massive volcanic ridge beneath the Indian Ocean has just delivered a major surprise to geologists. According to a new study ...

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 ...

However, many years ago, the Earth looked very different to how ... Over time, this huge mass of land split apart due to continental drift, eventually creating the seven separate continents ...

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for "all earth"). They were surrounded by one global ocean, but then ...

After calculating and observing, researchers state that in the next 50 million years both continents will merge and possibly become one, and this will change the geological system of the Earth. In ...

Future Ocean to Form Once the continental split completes ... re-merged at least three times throughout Earth’s history. This endless cycle of drift and collision underscores the dynamic ...

Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example of the process of continental drift, where deep ocean crust and the rocks of the earth's mantle lie exposed.