A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

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For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two million square miles. Though mostly underwater, this geological giant has ...

Visualisation of seismic model S40RTS (Ritsema et al., 2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. A new study led by ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...