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

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 ...

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

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

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

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

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the ... signatures we see in continental crust were created in Earth’s earliest period - regardless of how ...