The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...
Geoscientists have long known that some parts of the continents formed in the Earth's deep past, but the speed in which land rose above global seas -- and the exact shapes that land masses formed -- ...
These continental fragments are then swept sideways into the oceanic mantle, sometimes travelling over 1,000 km. Once in the ...
The continental lithosphere contains the oldest and most stable structures on Earth, where fragments of ancient material have eluded destruction by tectonic and surface processes operating over ...
A weekly round-up of stories from across the continent with Georja Calvin-Smith. African scholars update a monumental book ...