The entire Earth has been divided into several Geological Provinces on the basis of their origin. A geologic or geomorphic province is an entity with common geologic or...
The Earth’s surface is composed of six major lithospheric plates’ viz. Pacific, American, Eurasian, African, Austral-Indian, and Antarctic. Apart from those, there are some lesser plates and sub...
Lithosphere is made up of about a dozen giant and several smaller sections called plates, and these move in various directions in processes known collectively as plate tectonics....
The Lithosphere is always in a state of work in progress. In 1912, a German geologist named Alfred Wegener came up with an outlandish theory known as continental...
Surface area of earth is 510,072,000 km². It comprises of 148,940,000 km² land (29.2 %) & 361,132,000 km² water (70.8 %). Relief features of oceans are quite different...
There are various structures on the surface of the earth that give rise to various kinds of Landscapes. On a large scale, the landscapes of can be divided...
In Mass Wasting, the gravitational force of the earth acts directly on the loose material and the unstable slopes result the slide of the rocks and rock debris....
There are two types of the processes that affect the landforms viz. Exogenic and Endogenic. Endogenic are the processes that occur within the earth’s surface such as Plate...
Magma is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids. Besides molten rock it may contain suspended crystals and dissolved gases. The two most abundant elements...
