Dr Jordan Phethean, an author of the study, said: 'The discovery indicates that the North America and Eurasian tectonic plates have not yet actually broken apart, as is traditionally thought to ...

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

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor, plates. Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American ...

If this finding comes out to be true then it implies that North America and Europe are one ... was because they wanted to observe the tectonic plates. In many cases, it was noted that several ...

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

South America has a great example of ... which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as Transform Faults. As the plates scrape past ...