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

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

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Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

Researchers using a new method involving the mineral barite have dated the first emergence of continental crust to 500 million years earlier than previously thought.

The continental crust is the layer of granitic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. It ...

There could also be implications for the evolution of life in the ocean, which thrived on those continental nutrients, the researchers said — however, more research is required to know for sure.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Here we present observations that support the existence of a zone of exhumed continental mantle, several tens of kilometres wide, between oceanic and continental crust on continental margins where ...

The research team identified that at least 30% of continental crust was lost to the mantle during the formation of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau and Zagros Mountains (potentially up to 64% for the ...

Why The Oldest Continental Crust Doesn’t Last Forever They’re the most stable parts of the planet until they aren’t, and geologists want to know what causes the change.