The rift outlined chunks of the earth's crust, which were named tectonic (from a Greek word for "carpenter") plates. Six large and several smaller plates make up the surface of the globe.

That said, we found that the OXO plate worked better than some other large-capacity plates for both standard recipes and those that called for deep-dish pie plates. Although the pre-rolled ...

Wegener didn't have an explanation for how continents could move around the planet, but researchers do now: Plate tectonics. We now think that Earth's outer shell is divided into large slabs of ...