The continents we live on today are moving, and over hundreds of millions of years they get pulled apart and smashed together again. Occasionally, this tectonic plate-fueled process brings most of the ...

The beaches of Mauritius surround the island like a foamy white trim and sprinkled in the sand are clues to a lost, submerged continent. Ancient zircon crystals harvested from sand samples were found ...

Slate: Evidence of a vanished “microcontinent” northeast of Madagascar has been published in a scientific paper by an international research team. Share this article! Slate: Evidence of a vanished ...

Boulder, Colo. - The August-September issue of GEOSPHERE, published in electronic format only by the Geological Society of America, is now available online. Geology topics of interest include a ...