Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years, ...

Geological investigations in the Himalayas have revealed evidence that when India and Asia collided some 90 million years ago, the continental crust of the Indian tectonic plate was forced down under ...

New experiments have re-created the genesis of Earth’s first continents. By putting the squeeze on water and oceanic rocks under intense heat, researchers produced material that closely resembles the ...

How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it’s missing. That’s what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their ...

For decades, geologists have known that a huge portion of Earth’s earliest continental crust simply vanished from the rock record, as if someone had torn out the opening chapters of the planet’s ...

Finland's river crystals hold clues about the formation of 'Scandinavia's' oldest bedrock 3.75 billion years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: Article topics and locations include lava dome instability; deep drilling into the Nankai subduction zone, Japan; marine impact craters; and the Pacific’s oldest crust. These ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Fin whale songs are some of the loudest animals in the ocean, producing calls that can reach 189 decibels and are almost as loud as container ships. Francois Gohier / Universal Images Group via Getty ...

How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it's missing. That's what a trio of geoscientists did, and their explanation for ...