A long time ago (way long), all of the earth's continents were squished together—one supercontinent and one superocean. You could basically walk from South America into Africa, or from Africa into ...
Australia is drifting northward at a rate of about 7 centimeters (just under 3 inches) per year, making it the fastest-moving continent on the planet. This movement is caused by the Indo-Australian ...
Latitude shapes climate in a basic but powerful way. It controls the angle of sunlight, which helps decide whether a place ...
Photo: Harry Hess argues that the continents had once been one, and have drifted apart. With the discovery of plate tectonics and the mapping of the earth into about 12 plates, plus the understanding ...