Pelkum theorized that the same "continental-crust building process" could be happening at other places in the world other than California. Some of that locations of interest are New Zealand ...

The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary.

After World War I, Germany was suffering from the ... at the time that this finding supported Alfred Wegener's theory of continental drift. That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through ...

Three earthquakes struck Indonesia on Tuesday, with a 5.5-magnitude tremor hitting North Sumatra province in the morning, and ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other ... molten rock on which Earth's outermost layer, the crust, rests. On land, the continental crust is an average of 19 miles thick, but the ...

"The lack of a definitive answer as to what exactly makes a continent has led to the four, five, six and seven-continent responses around the world ... on Earth's continental crust," said ...

Cratons owe their longevity to their roots, or keels, Foster says. Cratons are much thicker than surrounding continental crust, with keels that can extend hundreds of kilometers down into the mantle.

which traverse the crust from bottom to top, erupting at ground level. Dr Gernon and his colleagues proposed that the rifting of continental plates sets in motion a slow-moving wave through the ...