Plate tectonics is the theory used to explain the structure of the Earth’s crust and many of the associated phenomena. The rigid lithosphere is split into 7 major ‘plates’ that slowly move on top of ...

During our month of “What Ifs,” we’ve gone from doubling Earth to halving the Sun to everyone trying to jump at the same time, and we’re wrapping things up back at ground level: What if the ...

Pangea wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last. Take a look ahead at the shape of the world to come. Unfathomable ages ago, the continents of the Earth were not in their current places. A single ...

WE really are one world, according to the findings of AlfredWegener, a guy who really knew his weather. Born on Nov. 1, 1880, in Germany, he received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Berlin ...

The outer layer of the Earth, the solid crust we walk on, is made up of broken pieces, much like the shell of a broken egg. These pieces, the tectontic plates, move around the planet at speeds of a ...