A new study advances the understanding of the role that continents have played in the chemical evolution of Earth's oceans, with implications for understanding atmospheric oxygenation and global ...

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory is ...

This is the first study in the world to use the reflection of the Earth to measure the effect of continents and oceans on the apparent brightness of a planet. Other studies have used a colour spectrum ...

The geological staying power of continents comes partly from their losing battle with the Earth's oceans over magnesium. Continents lose more than 20 percent of their initial mass to chemical ...

Seen from space, our planet has often been called a "blue marble." It's not, however, just the swirly white clouds that give Earth its marbled appearance. The continents: They are what complete the ...

In the remote Afar region of Ethiopia, a massive crack in the Earth—stretching nearly 60 kilometers—marks the exact place where Africa is beginning to split into two continents. What started with a ...

The continents may have first risen high above the oceans of the world about 3 billion years ago, researchers say. That's about a billion years earlier than geoscientists had suspected for the ...

A long-lost continent once sitting between India and Madagascar now lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, according to a report published Tuesday. Lewis Ashwal, a scientist at the University of ...

There is a ravishing kind of beauty in Tommaso Santambrogio’s lyrical triptych of contemporary Cuban life, “Oceans Are the Real Continents.” With black and white cinematography that privileges an ...