The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...