A California paleontologist has created an interactive map that allows people to see how far their hometowns have moved over 750 million years of continental drift. The online map, designed by Ian ...

An international research team has studied the geographical pattern of the evolution of corals and reef fish. Their findings show that today's geographical distribution of tropical marine diversity is ...

Palaeomagnetic comparisons between Europe and North America / S.K. Runcorn -- Geological evidence bearing upon continental drift / T.S. Westoll -- Palaeomagnetic data from the Gondwanic continents / K ...

The positions of the continents and ocean bodies have not been same in the past. The fact that continents shift their positions was proposed as early as in 1596. However, it was Alfred Wegener, a ...

WE really are one world, according to the findings of AlfredWegener, a guy who really knew his weather. Born on Nov. 1, 1880, in Germany, he received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Berlin ...

Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving ...