Your world map is wrong when it comes to Australia...  ...-moving tectonic plate, and manages to constantly drift relative to the world’s other land masses,...  ...correcting for other sources of error as well as continental drift . The last adjustment, in 1994, was a doozy: about...

Without ever setting sail, Marie Tharp mapped the...  ...mdash;for the first time—exactly where the continental shelf began to rise out of the abyssal plain and...  ...nts of the earth had once been connected and had drifted apart. In 1926, at a gathering of the American A...  ...aid, ‘It cannot...

by Tim Palucka Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Durin...  ...ation shows that, during that 48 minute period, a drift of 2 miles had occurred between the cities. The drift rate was a whopping 220 feet per minute (2.5 mil...  ...istory of geotectonic research. Discussion The drift...