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Discovery: continents disintegrating at their base

The continents we know are not stable entities. According to a study published in Nature Geoscience, their base undergoes continuous erosion from movements in the Earth's mantle. Fragments of the ...
SpaceNews

Movement Of The Solar System Through The Milky Way’s Galactic Spiral Arms Helped Form Earth’s First Continents

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...
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Seven continents of the world: Check the list here!

7 continents of the world: The Earth consists of 71% and 29% of landmasses. These land masses are further divided into continents. The complicated geological process of plate tectonics led to the ...
The New York Times

How Many Continents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers.

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...