Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa ... of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like ...

Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single ... at that single-millimeter-per-year rate for 40 million years, and then suddenly speeding up to 20 times ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded ... Asia crashed about 55 million years ago, slowly giving rise to the Himalaya, the highest mountain system on Earth.

However, many years ago, the Earth looked very different to how it does today. Around 250 million years ago, all of the continents were joined together as one supercontinent called Pangea.

A hotspot from underneath Earth’s crust may have created a low point that glaciers finished carving out and filling with ...