This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Study Suggests the Atlantic Ocean Is Expanding by a Couple of Inches Every Year Due to a Massive Upwelling The Atlantic Ocean ...

Discoveries of the Mid-Ocean Ridge and the work of Harry Hess and others led to the development of plate tectonics. Though not without problems, this theory has gained wide acceptance. It is the ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Raitt, R. W., Shor, G. G., Francis, T. J. G., and Morris, G. B., J. Geophys. Res. (in the press).

As it cools down, the lava creates a long line of mountains under the ocean called the Mid-ocean Ridge - the longest mountain range on Earth. The longest mountain range on land is the Andes in ...