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

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

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

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

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...