Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

To really learn what was behind the breakup of Pangaea, they would need to venture all the way to the ocean floor. From the ...

Gernon explains that kimberlites often occur during periods of significant tectonic plate rearrangements, such as the breakup ...

"What we observe today is essentially the result of transitions from Rodinia to Pangaea, followed by the breakup of Pangaea," Doucet noted. Both supercontinents formed over what is now the African ...

But life finds a way. At the time the ancestors of mammals and dinosaurs were among the survivors, repopulating all the continents after Pangea started to break up.

Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded to break up, forming the continents we know today. Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent ...

At the start of the period, the breakup of the supercontinent Pangaea continued and accelerated. Laurasia, the northern half, broke up into North America and Eurasia. Gondwana, the southern half ...