Technology and modern global politics are creating new challenges. Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental and oceanic regions continue to evolve. During the past decade ...
While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.
AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...
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 ...
As for Canada, Trump trolled Trudeau by referring to him as “governor” instead of prime minister and has called for Canada to be America’s “51st state.” On Tuesday, Trum ...
It's difficult to imagine a process more gradual than continental drift. But some scientists say that, slow or not, this repositioning of the world's landmasses was disastrous for dinosaurs.
where he put forth the idea of "continental displacement" or what later was called continental drift. The year 1912 was busy for Wegener: he got married (to the daughter of Germany's leading ...