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

“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.

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

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed ... and you find ...

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

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

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements ... Alfred Wegener proposed a theory called continental drift. This was a was a revolutionary ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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