The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

The phenomenon of the "Great Dissonance", where about a billion years are missing from the Earth's rocks, may finally be ...

There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks represents a gap of around a billion years of history. Among much debate ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, my colleagues and I have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth’s ...

Australian researchers found a series of rocks that show something quite surprising: part of Australia could have once been connected to a part of Canada on the North American continent, around 1.7 ...

For decades, scientists have accepted a particular theory regarding the evolution Earth’s plate tectonics, but a recent study published in Nature Geoscience could defy this as a team of researchers ...

CHAPEL HILL – In 1912, German meterorologist Alfred Wegener proposed a theory that first angered and then intrigued scientists and others ever since. Continents shifted around at far slower than a ...

Today, Earth’s landmasses are split up into several continents, separated by vast oceans. But this has not always been the case – hundreds of millions of years ago, they formed a single supercontinent ...

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LONG before evolution on Earth kicked in with a vengeance, it seemed to stall completely. From 1.7 billion years ago, for a billion boring years, Earth remained a slimy, near-static world of algae and ...