Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

Two days after Christmas, the Times journalists Raymond Zhong and Chang W. Lee set sail from Christchurch, New Zealand, on a ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

The story of Atlantis, a mythological continent that vanished into the sea after its inhabitants displeased the gods, has ...