Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet ... (e.g. Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia). A major example of this plate movement is along the coastline of ...

Situated on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland, the park provides a rare example ... when the ancient continental margin of North America was modified by plate movement by emplacement of a ...

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

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

The crust is the outside layer of the planet and it's made of solid rock - there are two types of crust, which are oceanic and continental. The mantle is hot, dense, iron and magnesium-rich solid ...