That means "it's extremely hard to divorce the concept of a continent from the sociocultural forces that shape our perception of Earth and our place within it." As Dan Montello, a geography ...

Although the calculations of Greenland's movement were found to be due to faulty determinations of longitude, the other evidence seemed to match up: the shape of the continents, fossil evidence ...

The Earth's continents are far from constant. Plate tectonics have caused the landmasses to shift over time, and another shift is occurring in the 21st century. Scientists have known for the past ...