New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

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

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories ...

Between the plates are plate boundaries and this video introduces destructive, constructive and conservative plate boundaries and how the plates move at each of these, with earthquakes occurring ...

Gaps form, allowing magma to flow up. As it cools, it adds new, igneous rock to the plate. At destructive boundaries, plates slowly collide, with one being subducted below the other. The slabs of ...

Originating from the collision of the Indian and the Eurasian Plates some 40 million years ago, the plate boundary in Southeast Asia is an active tectonic feature that generated one of the largest ...

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

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs about how our continents formed and when plate tectonics began.

Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are ...

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