Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

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

Scientists reveal an underground ocean beneath Earth’s crust, holding more water than all surface oceans combined. The post ...

Rethinking early Earth formation For decades ... and the beginning of plate movements.” The first crust likely broke into pieces that became thicker in some areas, forming the beginnings of continents ...

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

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

Farallon slab linked to crust loss under Midwest, says seismic study Crust thinning traced to deep Farallon slab 660km below ...

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

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet's magma creates continents - and may have even helped create life.

Beneath the American Midwest, part of the continent is gradually losing its foundation. This slow geological phenomenon, ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

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