Tagged: continent

Sometimes good science can happen by just looking at a map of the world and letting your mind wander. For instance, observe how Africa and South America seem to have been very recently cuddled together, even though there are currently a couple thousand miles of...

– Scientists at the University of Chicago have discovered a very large part of our planet’s continental crust that was there 60 million years ago is missing from the Earth’s surface. What happened do it? How do you make half the mass of two continents...