The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

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

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Two large rock formations located beneath the Pacific ... revealing that the Pacific formation contains 50% more fresh ...

And the crust is this layer of solid rock that we live on ... These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ocean, or continental, and mainly found under land.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

while continental rocks are made from granite. Continental and oceanic plates all fit together to form the outer crust of the planet. Eight major plates are named on the diagram below. Heat from ...