So, millions of years ago, the movement of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates caused a ridge to form, blocking the Atlantic Ocean from flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time ...

Roughly 5.3 million years ago, our planet experienced a cataclysm unlike anything in human memory: a deluge so immense and ...

The first whole-Earth plate tectonic map of half a billion years of Earth’s history EARTH is estimated to be around 4.5 billion years old, with life first appearing around three billion years ago.

How We Made Our Map In our day-to-day work, we use the shapes of continents and the geology they carry to reconstruct how real tectonic plate “puzzle pieces” moved around on Earth over time.

The Mediterranean Sea is a rather young body of water that formed around five and a half million years ago, as a result of the world’s biggest flood which ocean-ified a previously hot, dry desert.

The paper " New maps of global geological provinces and tectonic plates" is published in the journal Earth-Science Reviews (2022). Materials provided by the University of Adelaide.

The new models have revealed that ancient events may have left deep 'scars' that can trigger changes at the surface – including the folding, breaking, or flowing of the crust in tectonic plates.