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

We often think of the ground beneath us as solid and unchanging. But deep under the surface, Earth is constantly shifting and ...

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

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

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

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

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

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

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 ...

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

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...