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

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

Furthermore, when two continental plates collide ... depending upon the initial crust thickness), while up to 50% of the Alps' volume may have been destroyed. Importantly, this loss to the ...

Scientific, cultural and legal definitions of continental ... New oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges by melting the mantle, leading to a uniform crustal thickness. These oceanic plates ...