Science, Maths & Technology
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Drifting continents and a stormy passage
...physics that followed Einstein's theory of relativity. According to the theory of plate tectonics, the Earth's surface is divided into rigid plates of continental and oceanic lithosphere that, through time, move relative to each other, and which increase or decrease in area. So oceans are ‘born’ as land masses move apart and they age and ‘die’ as the land masses...