The chain of extinct and fossilized volcanoes stretched beneath South China and was formed during the breakup of the ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth’s early continents ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

In 1962, famed Princeton geologist Harry Hess theorized that the thickness of continental crust had to do with sea level and ocean depth. Deeper oceans enabled the formation of thicker continental ...

In a new study in the journal Science Advances, Jun Korenaga and Meng Guo suggest that more than half of Earth’s continental crust was already formed at the start of the Archean geological eon, 4 ...

New research deepens the understanding of Earth's crust by testing and ultimately eliminating one popular hypothesis about why continental crust is lower in iron and more oxidized compared to ...

These nutrients help foster life in the seas; a study published Feb. 11 in the journal Science found that when Earth's continental crust stopped growing for about a billion years during Earth's ...

Continental crust is vital in most of Earth’s natural cycles—it interacts with water and oxygen, forming new weathered products, hosting most metals and biological carbon. Large meteorite impacts are ...