“Europe is a stupid idea for a continent,” says Jonn Elledge, author of A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps. “Its boundaries with Asia are mainly ...

These continents are still on the move today ... plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries, where new crust is formed; convergent boundaries, where ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's ... one beneath the Pacific Ocean and one beneath Africa — lie at the boundary between Earth's mantle and its outer core, some 1,900 miles (3,000 ...

If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new landmass. A mid-ocean ridge would then mark the boundary between the ...

Instead, the two crush together at what is known as a collisional boundary. They crumple and fold. Some pieces of land are thrust over or under other pieces. The result is a mountain range.

She’s not just crossing geographical boundaries but shattering expectations ... A dedicated website will feature live updates from each continent. Eke Urum, founder of Risevest, reflected ...

We know that this is not the case. Wegener suggested that mountains formed when the edge of a drifting continent collided with another, causing it to crumple and fold. For example, the Himalayas ...