The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's ...
Parts of the ancient oceanic crust were thrust beneath the landmasses and sank far into the Earth’s mantle as Pangea broke apart and the present continents drifted apart. However, scientists have ...
Around 200 million years ago, Earth's last supercontinent Pangea began to break apart, with plate tectonics slowly moving the continents into the world we recognize today. Plate tectonics was only ...