Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up ... siderophile elements in the model – elements attracted to iron, such as the iron in Earth's core as it took shape.

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Scientists in the United States have 'blown the lid off' the Yellowstone supervolcano's mysterious underground reservoir of ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

The new model demonstrated that Earth’s early crust fractured, with portions thickening into the precursors of continents while the molten magma between these fragments generated crust ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

Analyzing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new ...

By Adam Nossiter Xavier Le Pichon, a French geophysicist whose pioneering model of the earth’s tectonic plates helped revolutionize how scientists understand movements of the earth’s crust ...

The scientists found that in the central region of the mountain range, Earth’s crust is currently peeling away, a process scientifically known as lithospheric foundering. Kilb and Schulte-Pelkum ...