David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the ...

When we talk about submerged continents or lands, we refer to continental crust in our oceans. These landmasses could be the source of “lost land” stories in numerous cultures, such as ...

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 ...