Excavating the mysteries beneath Earth’s crust is a challenging endeavor. However, a groundbreaking Earth’s crust discovery project drilled over a mile deep into the crust near the Atlantis ...

The team's calculations showed the protocrust—Earth's earliest crust formed during the Hadean eon (4.5–4.0 billion years ago)—would naturally develop the same chemical signatures found in ...

Earth and other rocky planets likely developed a primitive crust early on, but their chemical makeup hasn’t been studied much. This crust formed when materials from a vast magma ocean, created during ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth's very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle ...

before pulling it down into the Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust. Using a high-resolution seismic technique called full ...

Credit: Morris McLennan, Macquarie University New research suggests that Earth’s first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents ...

In a newspaper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal secrets of Earth's crust 4.5 billion years ago. In the process, we also provide a new way to approach one of the biggest enduring ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that ...

LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A published study claims the Earth's crust is peeling. Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra ...