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

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

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

Yardang (Yadan in Chinese) refers to land formations sculpted by relentless desert winds. Whistling past the jutting, silent turret of stratified sandstone, the wind — a perennial force to reckon with ...

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

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...