• About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
  • AGU.org
  • Career Center
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
  • About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos
Skip to content
  • AGU.org
  • Career Center
  • Join AGU
  • Give to AGU
Eos

Eos

Science News by AGU

Support Eos
Sign Up for Newsletter
  • About
  • Sections
  • Topics
    • Climate
    • Earth Science
    • Oceans
    • Space & Planets
    • Health & Ecosystems
    • Culture & Policy
    • Education & Careers
    • Opinions
  • Projects
    • ENGAGE
    • Editors’ Highlights
    • Editors’ Vox
    • Eos en Español
    • Eos 简体中文版
    • Print Archive
  • Blogs
    • Research & Developments
    • The Landslide Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Submit to Eos

continents

A dog sits next to a backpack on a dirt road in a desert landscape.
Posted inFeatures

Incredible Journeys on the Crown of the Continent

Mary Caperton Morton, Science Writer by Mary Caperton Morton 15 April 202215 April 2022

Living in Geologic Time: The making, breaking, and backpacking of North America’s Continental Divide.

Photograph of the Sheep Mountain Anticline.
Posted inEditors' Vox

The Birth, Growth, and Death of Continents

by Rixiang Zhu, Guochun Zhao, Wenjiao Xiao, Ling Chen and Yanjie Tang 28 October 202120 June 2024

There are various explanations for how the Earth’s continents form, develop, and change but challenges remain in fully understanding the driving forces behind plate tectonics on our planet.

Fishermen work from a small boat on a river in southern India with large boulders in the background
Posted inFeatures

Cratons, Why Are You Still Here?

by J. Paul 25 March 202128 January 2022

How have these continental relics from Earth’s early history survived the plate tectonic mixing machine?

Aerial view Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia
Posted inScience Updates

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Especially for Continents

by Lindsay Lowe Worthington, B. D. Shuck, A. Bécel, Z. C. Eilon and C. Lynner 24 March 202125 October 2022

A decade-long research collaboration has revealed that the split between Africa and North America roughly 200 million years ago was more drawn out than previously thought.

Close-up image of garnet lherzolite
Posted inNews

Modeling the Creation of Cratons, Earth’s Secret Keepers

by Jackie Rocheleau 12 January 202120 June 2024

Geoscientists have long been trying to answer the complicated questions of how and why Earth’s continents formed. New research suggests a solution that surprised even the investigators themselves.

Interpretations of seismic reflection transects across a section of the Australia-Antarctic rift margin
Posted inEditors' Highlights

New Data from Earth’s Largest Non-Volcanic Rift Margin

by W. Behr 24 August 202027 January 2023

Seismic reflection images combined with petrological data provide new constraints on the nature of the basement in the enigmatic Australia-Antarctic oceanic-continent transition zone.

Aerial image of the summit caldera of Erta Ale volcano
Posted inNews

Are We Seeing a New Ocean Starting to Form in Africa?

Erik Klemetti, Science Writer by Erik Klemetti 8 May 202018 October 2022

Although shallow magma storage at Erta Ale volcano hints at a rift-to-ridge transition, the tectonic future of the Afar region is far from certain.

Point Sal on the California coastline in an aerial view of the study site for the 2017 Inner Shelf Dynamics Experiment.
Posted inScience Updates

Untangling a Web of Interactions Where Surf Meets Coastal Ocean

by J. Lerczak, J. A. Barth, S. Celona, C. Chickadel, J. Colosi, F. Feddersen, M. Haller, S. Haney, L. Lenain, J. A. MacKinnon, J. MacMahan, K. Melville, A. O’Dea, P. Smit, A. Waterhouse and T. Xu 2 May 201911 January 2022

In 2017, an ocean research team launched an unprecedented effort to understand what drives ocean currents in the overlap regions between surf zones and continental shelves.

The Getz Ice Shelf in Antarctica
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Very Warm Water Observed Along West Antarctic Ice Shelf

by Terri Cook 11 April 201911 January 2022

Two years of mooring observations at the edge of the continental shelf show that wind stress and upwelling control the inflow of some of the warmest water observed at an ice shelf front in Antarctica.

A view of the Scottish Highlands, where a geologist first recognized Barrovian geological regional metamorphism.
Posted inResearch Spotlights

Regional Metamorphism Occurs Before Continents Collide

by Terri Cook 3 January 201911 January 2022

Evidence from collision zones suggests that the high temperatures that create regional zones of metamorphic minerals occur in wide, hot back arcs prior to continental collision deformation.

Posts pagination

Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 Older posts
A view of a Washington, D.C., skyline from the Potomac River at night. The Lincoln Memorial (at left) and the Washington Monument (at right) are lit against a purple sky. Over the water of the Potomac appear the text “#AGU24 coverage from Eos.”

Features from AGU Publications

Research Spotlights

Early Apes Evolved in Tropical Forests Disturbed by Fires and Volcanoes

12 June 202511 June 2025
Editors' Highlights

Coverage Factors Affect Urban CO2 Monitoring from Space

12 June 202512 June 2025
Editors' Vox

Rising Concerns of Climate Extremes and Land Subsidence Impacts

9 June 20254 June 2025
Eos logo at left; AGU logo at right

About Eos
ENGAGE
Awards
Contact

Advertise
Submit
Career Center
Sitemap

© 2025 American Geophysical Union. All rights reserved Powered by Newspack