Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...
Scientists have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive -- 182-Tungsten in banded iron formations -- can be used to simultaneously trace both the evolution of the Earth's mantle and continents ...
Visualisation of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. A new study led by ...
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The lost continent of 2 million years: How Sundaland shaped human evolution
Sundaland was a vast Southeast Asian landmass that existed for most of the last 2 million years, exposed during glacial ...
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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 ...
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