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

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

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

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...