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

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

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

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

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 ...

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

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's interior, can impact long-term climate stability, atmospheric ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...