AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Although scientists agreed with Wegener that there had been a supercontinent, they disliked the reasoning behind continental ...

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for "all earth"). They were surrounded by one global ocean, but then ...

In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know today were once all attached in a single landmass he called Pangaea (Greek for "all earth"). They were surrounded by one global ocean, but then ...

and later Pangaea, subducted under the continental crust, again eroding some of the continental rock as the tectonic plates ground together. This created a funnel effect, Doucet said. "You ...

oceanic crust on the edges of Rodinia and later Pangaea continued to subduct beneath the continents. This subduction eroded portions of the continental rock, creating a funnel effect as tectonic ...