Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of ...

Long before the continents spread across the globe, Earth held one connected landmass known as Pangaea. This supercontinent formed hundreds of millions of years ago and helps explain why distant ...

Before Plate Tectonics arrived and different collisions occurred, Pangea a supercontinent existed. Let’s see in detail about Pangea, its formations & geography and what is the relevance of Tectonic in ...

It’s hard to imagine a time when Antarctica was a stone’s throw from the Australian Outback, or when Morocco was right across the street from New York. But that was the world 300 million years ago, ...

The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans, uplifts ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

The continents as we know them resulted when the proto­continent Pangaea broke apart and its fragments made the long slow journey to their present positions. The process took about 200 m­illion years.

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