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

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

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

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

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

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

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

The bunching of the land by plate tectonics was followed by intense erosion, which wiped away any sediment covering the ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...