Jack looks at projections of Earth’s continents far into the future, exploring geological and plate tectonic predictions for ...

Forget the neat, tidy narratives you might have heard in school about a stable, unchanging Earth. Just like history, our ...

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"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than 900°C, radioactive elements shifted upward, cooling and strengthening the ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...