Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

DR. R. H. RASTALL'S interesting article in NATURE of May 2, p. 646, raises what is perhaps the most difficult problem or group of problems that geophysicists have yet to solve. In considering the ...

THE wide appeal of Prof. Wegener's theory of the arrangement of ocean and continent is shown by, the issue of a third greatly revised edition and of this excellent English translation. His theory ...

A teenage pilot, who is attempting to fly across seven continents solo, hit a patch of rough air this weekend when Chilean ...

Source rocks of the first real continents Date: January 31, 2024 Source: University of British Columbia Summary: Geoscientists have uncovered a missing link in the enigmatic story of how the ...

Penn State. (2020, December 1). Geoscientists use zircon to trace origin of Earth's continents. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 12 / 201201153424.htm ...

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Under the subduction theory, continents started moving around because of plate tectonics 500 million years after the Earth formed, between 3.6 billion and 4 billion years ago.

This article was originally published with the title “ Probable Origin of Continents and Ocean Depths ” in SA Supplements Vol. 48 No. 1232supp (August 1899), p. 19758 doi:10.1038 ...