Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed during the Hadean eon, would have a ...

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

Far be it from us to suggest there’s a parallel between the continental plate’s behavior and what is happening on top, but ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

The team used a new method of mapping the undersides of continental crust known as full-waveform ... craton with some events at the surface, for example rocks formed 70 million years ago in ...