Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...

Between 85,000 and 10,000 years ago, a massive glacier called the Laurentide Ice Sheet extended from the Northwest Passage all the way down to the Great Plains, covering large swaths of land now ...

For years, researchers believed North America's Laurentide Ice Sheet disappeared very early in the Last Interglacial. But new evidence suggests the Laurentide lingered thousands of years after that.