The new seismic stress map of North America. Image ... but also across the entire North American continent. Looking at the map, the black lines show areas of maximum horizontal stress, and ...

Therefore, the paper’s authors argued, North America ... North American continents are still in the process of breaking apart, leaving the world with six continents rather than seven. Map ...

Dr. Ron Blakey, Professor Emeritus of Geology at Northern Arizona University, recently published maps showing the step-by-step evolution of the tectonic plates comprising North America ...

Growing up, most of us learned that Earth is home to seven continents. But it may be time to rewrite the geography textbooks, as a controversial study now claims there are actually only six ...

The REAL map of the world ... break-up of the European and North American continents is still ongoing. Scientifically speaking, this would mean North America and Europe could be classed as ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs ... The affected part of the North American continent is an example of a "craton"—ancient and stable parts of the crust that typically undergo ...

While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting ... both European and North American tectonic plates," said ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent ... model for North America. This computer model utilized ...

Humans are the only primates currently living in the wild in North America ... American Plains just after the Eocene-Oligocene transition. At this time, a huge cooling and dying event made the ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away ... waveform seismic tomographic model for North America using an approach developed by co-author ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process providing new information about how continents and landmasses evolve.