Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

What does our collective future look like? Well, that depends on how far ahead you want to look. The first-ever supercomputer-generated continental-shift models are out, and the projections they share ...

Melting glaciers in North America 10,000 years ago may have given continental drift a bit of a push. Similar activity in Greenland now could eventually trigger volcanic eruptions in Iceland.

THE complex problem of continental drift has everywhere been the subject of animated discussion in geological circles during recent years, and the publication of the papers presented at a symposium ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help from ...