In this imagined world, Australia would not be a single nation of 28 million but possibly a version of Africa, long ago ...

About 340 million years ago, the Appalachian Mountains were as tall as the Himalayas and spanned across what is today three continents.

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

Africa is slowly splitting in two ... all of the continents were combined into one known as Pangaea, but the action of tectonic plates pulled it apart, creating drifting continents with edges ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Switzerland has a new tectonic map at a scale of 1:500,000. The TK500 contains updates to the geometry, distribution and nomenclature of the tectonic units of Switzerland and its neighboring areas.

The tectonic shift in Africa is a captivating geological phenomenon that has been unfolding over the past 25 million years. This gradual process involves the widening of a rift within the African ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction - and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role ... Today, the coelacanth is a fascinating deep-sea fish that ...