It means continental crust formation may have been a part of the original process of layer formation on Earth, not something that came after. The idea is backed up by the behavior of other siderophile ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered a hidden lid that keeps the vast reservoir of magma beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano at bay.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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