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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 ...
SpaceNews

Movement Of The Solar System Through The Milky Way’s Galactic Spiral Arms Helped Form Earth’s First Continents

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...
PBS

The Graveyard at the Center of the Earth

Scientists have been trying to solve the mystery of why plate tectonics works the way it does for over a hundred years. And they might have just uncovered a key to cracking it. Eons is available to ...
AOL

New study redraws the world map: Earth only has six continents

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...