But new research suggests that even the oldest crust is disintegrating due to natural ... by this special form of subduction occurring near oceanic plates, revealing how the continents evolved ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

Initially, subduction of the shallowly-dipping oceanic Izanagi plate (flat-slab subduction) from the east led to thickening of the overriding NCC crust of the Eurasian plate as it was shortened ...

The oldest Archaean crater before this discovery ... of erosion and subduction in recycling primary (basaltic, oceanic) crust back into the convecting mantle,” Kirkland and Johnson said in ...