Earliest Evidence of Plate Tectonics

Researchers have found that for much of human evolutionary history our brains kept growing. In fact, if you count from our last shared ancestors with chimpanzees six million years ago, the human brain size almost quadrupled. This happened thanks in part to the im...

• Most volcanoes are formed when the boundaries of our planet's tectonic plates collide and overlap, eventually sinking deep inside.
• Many get life by ‘hotspot volcanism’ which is the magmatic activity at the center of the tectonic plate.
• Volcanoes have crea...

The ACC is estimated to have been established 34 million years ago, when Antarctica separated from South America.

The ACC has a crucial impact on Earth’s climate: it transports more water than any other ocean cu...