Join Isla and Connor as they explore features of tectonic movement ... plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the continents and ...

Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent ... Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries ...

4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor, plates. Six of the majors are named for the continents ... movement of the plates creates three types of ...

Visuals that reproduce nearly two billion years of movement are essential to research initiatives that dig into Earth's history, geologic periods, and hidden tectonic plates.

The finding also helps us understand plate tectonics. The continent formed millions of years ago. It was part of a rift system between Greenland and Canada. Image credits: Canva In a surprising ...

with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This process, driven by movements along the East African Rift System, is separating Africa into two parts: the Nubian and Somalian plates.