The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

The ancient supercontinent of Rodinia turned inside out as the Earth swallowed its own ocean some 700 million years ago, new research suggests. Rodinia was a supercontinent that preceded the more ...

Most people who read this column probably know that the separate continents of today were once one supercontinent that geologists call Pangaea. Pangaea began breaking apart around 200 million years ...

Graphite lubricates fault zones Sediment processes can be significant source of ambient noise Evolution of the Qin Mountains as part of the supercontinent Rodinia Studying how flocculation affects ...

The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, ...

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In Dante’s Peak, unexpected tectonic activity results in a massive volcanic eruption which threatens the lives and livelihoods of the people living nearby. It’s the perfect setting for a story in ...

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean.

The United States hasn’t always had the closest relationship with China or Russia. But give us a few hundred million years, and we could be a lot more unified: A new prediction for the motion of the ...

The Earth has been covered by giant combinations of continents, called supercontinents, many times in its past, and it will be again one day in the distant future. The next predicted supercontinent, ...