This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Scientists have discovered indications that they might be connected below in more than one place ... redefine how we think of continents. The implications of these findings go beyond reshaping ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found lurking below Africa and the Pacific Ocean, entombed some 1,200 miles below the ...

Plate tectonics seems to be crucial for life on Earth, but we’ve never ... America and Europe is actually one single large landmass rather than separate continents. “They are, in fact, still ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a ... The two giant blobs — one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa — lie at the boundary between Earth's ...

During subduction, a tectonic plate shifts beneath another one, forcing it from the Earth’s surface down as far as nearly 1,900 feet. The two sub-continents, as well as any other areas causing ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever ...