Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

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 ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

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

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

The salt in seawater makes it conduct electricity well, far better than the surrounding rocks ... crust. However, recent findings like this necessitate a new framework for understanding oceanic ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. The research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth’s first ...

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 ...

The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North America being pulled ... that the drips result from ...