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

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Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core ...

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

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

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

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

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

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created ...

A deep learning-based scheme is proposed for automated and efficient processing of teleseismic phases. 1. The validation with ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the ...