It allows sovereignty of nations to be extended to near the base of the continental slope. The modern scientific definition of a continent has four criteria: Elevation (water depth) geology of the ...

we mean around 230 million years ago), there used to be one big supercontinent called Pangea but as we all know this slowly broke apart what emerged the continental drift is the world we’re ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything ... It also explained why continents drift over the planet’s surface and thus, from time to time, come together to form an all-embracing ...

This discovery, together with data from a 1964 research vessel, transformed the field of geology. It confirmed sea-floor spreading as hypothesized by Hess, and thus "continental drift," originally ...