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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

A new study has changed what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s early history. Researchers have discovered that the ...

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 ...