Case studies include both rifting on land, in east Africa and Iceland, and at the mid-ocean ridges that divide the oceanic crust. The mid-ocean ridges mark the lines along which the Earth is ...

I like to think of this concept as the Earth Science equivalent of finding the Lost City of Atlantis; fragments of lost continent submerged beneath the sea and kilometres of thin lava flows,' Dr ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers ... colliding to build mountains or rifting apart to form new seafloor. Continents are composed of relatively light blocks that float high on ...

Tom Gernon, professor of earth science at the University of Southampton ... “Meanwhile, the rifting event also sets about a ‘deep mantle wave’ that travels along the continent’s base ...

"This rifting has thinned the crust and brought hot material from deep down in the Earth - from hundreds of ... One of the great advances in polar science in the past decade is the recognition ...