New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

A new study from the University of Houston could change the way we understand how lakes were formed.Aibing Li, a UH seismologist and co-author of the ...

A supercomputer simulation has unveiled a shocking glimpse into Earth’s distant future: a world where the continents merge ...

The discovery suggests the process began hundreds of millions of years ago, before the supercontinent Pangaea began to separate ... the effects of an ancient hotspot that was once inside a continent ...

before the supercontinent Pangaea began to separate. Over several millennia, as North America broke away and shifted above the Cape Verde hotspot, it traveled through where the Great Lakes are now ...

The concepts of creation and destruction are fundamental to current scientific theories regarding the origin of the Earth.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A long-lost oceanic plate is diving deep into the mantle, dragging down the crust above ...

Look. The land on Earth is made up of different pieces called continents. The whole world used to be joined in one supercontinent called Pangaea. The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live ...