Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

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 ...

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 ...