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

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

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

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Scientists have warned that the crust of the Earth beneath the US is 'dripping' away, which sounds quite concerning but is ...

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

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

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Professor Emeritus Simon Turner from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at ... "Our research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth's very first crust, the protocrust—meaning those theories ...