Category: continent

The mainland, one of the largest tracts of land, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia, sized. (they sometimes consider Europe and Asia a single continent, Eurasia). The size of each continent differs; Asia is five times that of Australia. Greenland the largest island in the world, only a quarter of Australia.…

Antarctica ranked fifth in every continent. It’s land covered by huge ice sheets. It concentric around the South Pole, Antarctica, the South Pole. His name means “opposite the North Pole” is the southernmost tip of the continent. This condition has had a profound impact on the entire aspects of his charm. It covers a range…

World Continent General Considerations For Australia Geological History. The first known manifestation of the Australian continental geological record is interrogated zircon particles of 4.4 billion years and sedimentary rocks between 3.7 and 3.3 billion years ago. They have determined the age of Precambrian rocks in Australia founded on other survey results. Ranged from 3.7 billion…

Australia the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on the planet. Between the Pacific Sea and the Indian Sea in the southern hemisphere. It locates Canberra, the capital of Australia, in the southeast. Between Sydney and Melbourne’s largest and most important economic and cultural center. The Australian continent extends 2,500 miles (4,000 km)…

World Continent General Considerations For South America Geological History. We can group the geological history of South America into three distinct stages of development. Each of them conforms to an important division of geological time. The first phase comprised a pre-Cambrian period (4,600 to 541 million years ago). Characterized by a series of complex pieces…

South America, the fourth continent of the world. The southern part of the land and often referred to as the New World, the Western Hemisphere or the Americas. The continent of Africa is a compact, triangular, wide in the north, and Cape Point in Chile in the south. South America bounded by the Caribbean Sea,…

World Continent General Considerations For North America Geological History. During the geological period, the mainland has collided and separated many times. When they separated, it forms a new ocean basin between the divergent fragments through the seafloor propagation procedure. The propagation, which originates from the ridge of the ocean. It offset (to stay in the…

World Continent General Considerations For Europe Geological History. Precambrian rocks exist in three basic tectonic settings. First a shield, such as the Baltic Sea Shield. A large space of ​​stable Precambrian rock that surrounded by later orogenic belts (mountain shapers). The second is from the basement to the young Phanerozoic sediment coating (ie sediments have…

Europe the second greatest continent in the earth. It comprises the peninsula west of Eurasia (a large piece of land shared with Asia). Accounting for one-fifth of the world’s total land space. It limits the north and the Arctic Ocean. The West and the Atlantic Ocean. South (from the West to the East) Mediterranean Sea,…

World Continent General Considerations For Africa Geological History. The African continent comprises five ancient Precambrian cratons, Kaapvaal, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Congo, and West Africa. Which formed 2 billion to 3.6 billion years ago and have been stable since then; These cratons limited by the young crease bands formed between 2 billion and 300 million years ago.…