Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability from the beginning of Earth's history ... and transpressional (horizontal displacement of rocks with an added shortening ...

In 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be the oldest discovered fragment of Earth's crust. In 2020, a New York City jury ...