This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may trigger quakes and reshape the region’s geology.

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Drewitt, J. W. E., Walter, M. J., Zhang, H., McMahon, S. C., Edwards, D., Heinen, B. J., Lord, O. T., Anzellini, S., & Kleppe, A. K. (2019). The fate of carbonate in ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Both supercontinents formed over what is now the African domain. As oceans closed between landmasses, the oceanic crust was forced beneath the continents in a process called subduction ...

Formation of continental and oceanic crust depletes the convecting mantle in certain elements, but some of these elements are returned to the mantle when the oceanic lithosphere sinks at ...

Tracking the thermal and petrologic evolution of magmatically robust fast spread lower ocean crust The four-dimensional development of lower oceanic crust: Integrated zircon trace element and high ...

The oldest oceanic plates on Earth date back about 200 million years. In contrast, the crust of continents lies under shallow oceans and land. It is highly variable in composition and age.