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

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

Beneath America, something ancient and invisible is at work. Deep under the heart of the Midwest, a long-buried slab of Earth ...

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

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A new study has changed what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s early history. Researchers have discovered that the ...

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