The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

The “Boring Billion” is an informal description of a billion-year-period of Earth history (1.8 billion to 800 million years ago) where tectonics, climate, and biological evolution remained ...

This groundbreaking research offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Earth’s tectonic evolution from 1.8 Ga to the present, bridging critical gaps in pre-Pangean plate dynamics. By merging three ...

Pannotia occupies an awkward position in Earth science. It is described in textbooks and review papers, yet its outline remains faint. The proposed supercontinent is said to have existed around 600 ...

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Today, Earth’s landmasses are split up into several continents, separated by vast oceans. But this has not always been the case – hundreds of millions of years ago, they formed a single supercontinent ...