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The idea that Earth might only have six continents hinges on the new research conducted by Dr. Jordan Phethean from the University of Derby and his international team of geologists.
Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...
The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there ...
The early Earth was entirely molten, and its surface began to solidify only as the planet cooled. This solid surface then eventually formed continents, but they were very different ones compared ...
Researchers at the University of Southampton have found something quite unusual taking place with our planet. They discovered ...
Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?