Asia is the world’s largest continent, containing more than forty countries. Asia contains some of the world’s largest countries by area and population, including China and India. Most of Asia is in ...

You might think you know all of Earth’s continents, but there’s one that has remained hidden for millions of years. Zealandia, a massive landmass mostly submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, ...

Many authors have suggested that some Indian continental lithosphere has subducted, but owing to its buoyancy has underplated the Asian continent 4,5. More recently, tomographic imaging of the mantle ...