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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

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

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the ... signatures we see in continental crust were created in Earth's earliest period -- regardless of how the ...