To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...

Africa is three times bigger than North America, for example, but appears smaller on the map. On the Mercator map, Greenland looks massive compared with Africa, which is actually 14 times bigger ...

Acquired by Yale University and publicized to great fanfare in 1965, the Vinland Map—supposedly dated to mid-15th century Europe—showed part of the coast of North America, seemingly presenting ...

The Vinland Map, which supposedly showed the exploration of North America by Vikings in the 15th century, is fake, according to researchers at Yale. The map was first discovered in 1965, but ...

In the long term, the map could inspire and inform modeling efforts aimed at better understanding North America's geologic past, as well as the continent's present day tectonic intricacies.

Map Shows Ozone Hole Was Size of North America at 2023 Peak Published Nov 02, 2023 at 10:41 AM EDT Updated Nov 02, 2023 at 1:28 PM EDT ...

According to the map, we can see that: The population of China is equivalent to the population of North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and all of Western Europe -- combined.