Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability ... and colleagues have investigated the disintegration of one particular craton over a period of 200 million years.

From the time Earth came into existence, there has been long-term stability in some cratons of the continental crust and others ... of the North China Craton (NCC) and the western Pacific Ocean ...

These movements have altered the positions and topography of the continents, contributing to the current state of the planet’s crust. While certain regions of the continental crust, known as ...