For centuries, the world has accepted the idea that Earth is divided into seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America. However, a recent study is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Beneath the surface of the Earth lie several tectonic plates - large slabs of rock that are constantly on the move, albeit at a very slow rate. Plate tectonics are constantly changing the Earth as ...

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 ...