With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Farallon slab linked to crust loss under Midwest, says seismic study Crust thinning traced to deep Farallon slab 660km below surface New seismic method shows Earth’s crust pulled like a funnel ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

The team's calculations showed the protocrust—Earth's earliest crust formed during the Hadean eon (4.5–4.0 billion years ago)—would naturally develop the same chemical signatures found in ...

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust. This ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...