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 ...

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 ...

A view of the Zagros mountains in Iran, where an oceanic plate is tearing apart. . | Credit ... an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia ...