New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

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

Zealandia is a geological outlier. It is by far the largest submerged continent and also the smallest recognized continent ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

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

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...