Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Silfra Fissure in Iceland, located in Þingvellir National Park, offers a unique opportunity to swim or snorkel between the ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...