A common mineral, α-alumina, found abundantly in Earth's crust, may have played a critical role in initiating the chemical ...

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

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

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

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 ...

Earth’s crust discovery unveils surprising findings. The post Earth’s Crust Discovery Unveils Surprising Findings appeared ...

An international team has identified a novel mechanism: "drops" of rock detaching from Earth's crust and plunging into the mantle. This discovery sheds light on continent dynamics over vast timescales ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. The research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth’s first ...

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

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents.