A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions of early Earth, the ...

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

A new study has changed what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s early history. Researchers have discovered that the ...

this piece of oceanic crust is responsible for a process known as "cratonic thinning," according to the new study, which was ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into ... reveals that the craton that sits under most of the North American continent ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological ... magma between them created crust similar to what we find in ocean floors today.