What is a continent when over 94 percent of it is under the water? Zealandia is an extensive belt of continental crust around ...
Scientists have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why 'stable' parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.
The map of Earth looks settled at first glance. Continents feel fixed, named, and counted. Yet over the past few decades, geologists have been quietly reshaping that picture. One large region in the ...