As oceans closed between landmasses ... oceanic crust on the edges of Rodinia and later Pangaea continued to subduct beneath the continents. This subduction eroded portions of the continental ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as the East African Rift. Far from being a mere curiosity, this rift holds the ...

The concepts of creation and destruction are fundamental to current scientific theories regarding the origin of the Earth.

The ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo is hosting the debut of Expedition Dinosaur: Into the Deep, a groundbreaking traveling display developed by Stage 9 Exhibits that dives into the marine reptiles, ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above ...

Look. The land on Earth is made up of different pieces called continents. The whole world used to be joined in one supercontinent called Pangaea. The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today. These continents just like Pangea are not going to stay intact forever and will ...