A continent typically has a thicker crust and is geologically much more varied — with granites, schists, limestones, and quartzites — compared to the sea floor. A bathymetric map of Zealandia ...

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.

To study the rapidly changing ecosystems of Antarctica, researchers have recently created the first continent-wide map of its plant life. You might expect the color palette of Antarctica to be ...

After hundreds of years of speculation, scientists say they've finally mapped out Earth's "lost" eighth continent, Zealandia. In a new study published in the journal Tectonics, researchers ...

Delve into one of the most popular and cliché alternate history maps ever imagined. Alternate history has long fascinated ...

These maps show Zealandia is a continent like the other 7. Until 2017, Zealandia was classified as a "microcontinent," like the island of Madagascar. But according to Mortimer, ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, most of the remnants of a 2 million square foot lost continent known as Zealandia have fascinated scientists since 2017. Now, researchers from GNS Science in New Zea… ...

Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps. That's because almost 95 percent of its land mass is submerged thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean. Zealandia ...

The most accurate terrain map of Antarctica has a resolution of 2 to 8 meters—more than 100 times sharper than previous ... "It is the highest-resolution terrain map by far of any continent.