As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Longest mountain range, running through the Atlantic Ocean, separating the Eurasian and North American plates in the north, ...

As two of Earth's great tectonic plates slowly crash together, the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be wiped off the face of ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be.

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

It extended before and beyond the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, a transition between ... Around this time, the Indian Plate, once part of the Gondwana supercontinent along with South ...