FASB, Financial Accounting Standards Board. XBRL, or eXtensible Business Reporting Language, is an XML standard for tagging business and financial reports to increase the transparency and accessibility of business information by using a uniform format.
Continental drift takes place because continents sit on crustal plates which float on the Earth's magma, and the magma has convection currents in it which push against the plates and cause them to move, slowly but inexorably.
continental drift. Geology the theory that the earth's continents move gradually over the surface of the planet on a substratum of magma. The present-day configuration of the continents is thought to be the result of the fragmentation of a single landmass, Pangaea, that existed 200 million years ago. continental drift.