Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...
A team of French, American and Turkish paleontologists and geologists led by CNRS researchers1 has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers ...
Scientists have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive -- 182-Tungsten in banded iron formations -- can be used to simultaneously trace both the evolution of the Earth's mantle and continents ...
Visualisation of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. A new study led by ...
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Zealandia, Earth’s '8th continent,' finally mapped under the Pacific
Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After ...
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Discovery: continents disintegrating at their base
The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes continuous erosion from movements in the Earth's mantle. Fragments of the ...
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