The crusty conundrum carries fundamental implications. The thickness of continental crust — the part of Earth’s crust that forms land masses and continents — plays an important role in everything from ...

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new exploration method to assist the oil and gas industry in identifying more precisely where the oceans and continents meet. Scientists at ...

How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it’s missing. That’s what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their ...

Earth’s continental crust may have begun forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, Yale scientists say — and the reason will be obvious to anyone who has ever baked a cake ...

EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 19 (UPI) --How did Earth's earliest continental crust form? The world's oldest rock offers new clues, but raises more questions than answers. Scientists at the University of ...

Except perhaps for some remote island dwellers, most people have a natural tendency to view continents as fundamental, permanent and even characteristic features of Earth. One easily forgets that the ...

Ever since the recognition of plate tectonics on Earth, with its jigsaw puzzle of shifting plates, geoscientists have wondered why otherwise strong and rigid continents repeatedly break up and collide ...

The Earth's seven continents may seem like terra firma, but geologists know the "firma" part doesn't prove out. The buoyant shelves of granite that tower miles above the seafloor have a protean past ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A dense crystalline "rain" falling into Earth's mantle could explain how a mysterious seismic ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Earth was a very different place 4 billion years ago: The planet was much hotter — ...

How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it's missing. That's what a trio of geoscientists did, and their explanation for ...