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

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

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 ...

Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed ... the research team I led tried a ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

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

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere, is made up of the rigid crust and the ... and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above this layer.

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.

“Our research shows that the chemical signatures we see in continental crust were created in Earth’s earliest period - regardless of how the planet’s surface was behaving,” says Professor Turner.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...