"This discovery suggests that these regions are not merely isolated landforms; they are interconnected components of a larger continental structure." Continents are difficult to define because the ...

Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour off the keels of continents, buoying their surfaces upward to form prominent landforms far from any active plate boundaries, researchers ...

Scientists have solved one of Earth’s mysteries of how continents rose more than 1km ... mystery” of how some of the most dramatic landforms came into being. Tom Gernon, professor of earth ...