This provided for a highly granular view of the seismic situation at local levels, but also across the entire North American continent. Looking at the map, the black lines show areas of maximum ...

The full title for the 12-panel map covering 36 square feet ... terra incognita (unknown land) for both continents, or terra nova (new world) for South America and "Cuba" for North America.

Scientists confirmed that the submerged land mass, named Zealandia, was its own continent in 2017. But they hadn't been able to map its full breadth ... and North America. Gondwana in the south ...

the researchers used a new technique to analyze seismic data and build up a computer model of the crust and mantle beneath the North American continent. "Because of the use of this full-waveform ...

From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America ... continent might need a rewrite. The map ...

it would mean that the tectonic plates of the European and North American continents are still in the process of breaking apart, leaving the world with six continents rather than seven.

While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting as one consolidated America. Some combine Europe and Asia into ...

The remaining land is mostly split into seven main divisions. These continents are Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Antarctica, Africa and Australia. Among the seven, Asia is the ...

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called "cratonic dripping." This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate ...