Africa is undergoing a gradual geological transformation, with tectonic forces slowly pulling the continent apart. This ...

However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in ... an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern ...

which formed approximately 1.2 billion years ago and broke apart about 750 million years ago, and Pangaea, which formed around 335 million years ago and began breaking up 200 million years ago.

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

However, the plate is also tearing apart below the Zagros Mountains in Iraq as it plunges ... The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea ...