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

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

It means continental crust formation may have been a part of the original process of layer formation on Earth, not something ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions ... “Our research shows that the chemical signatures we see in continental crust were created ...

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 ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

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

before pulling it down into the Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust. Using a high-resolution seismic technique called full ...

The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing ... the chemical signatures we see in the continental crust were created in Earth's earliest period—regardless of how the ...