The northern continents, called Laurasia, split away from the southern ones, called Gondwana. From there the landmasses drifted away on great tectonic plates, fragmenting further into the world ...

Researchers have located the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates, demonstrating how they formed the super-continent Gondwana 165 million years ago. Researchers ...

Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth’s crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our ...