A new study has revealed the fascinating origins of some of the world’s largest copper deposits, located in the Gangdese Belt ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

If confirmed, it would make the Nuvvuagittuq belt the oldest known chunk of Earth’s crust, edging out the Acasta Gneiss formation in the Northwest Territories ... Researchers believe the site was once ...

Jill VanTongeren, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, will present a lecture titled "Structure and formation of the oceanic crust through time" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, April 20, 2017, in the ...

A research team from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) have discovered rocks and fossils in Angola which speak about how South America and Africa tore apart nearly 140 million years ago and led ...

Oceanic crust, made of basaltic rock and rich in magnetite, is created at divergent plate boundaries, where the mantle is constantly coughing up new magma. As the magma rises, cools and gets pushed ...

However, submersible and camera imagery show that deformation is widespread along the southern face of the massif, indicating that a series of faults, rather than a single detachment, accommodated the ...

The crust of Earth, the planet's outer shell, is divided into two rough categories: The older, thicker continental crust; and the younger, denser oceanic crust.

Back in my day, there were only four layers of Earth: the crust, mantle, liquid outer core and solid inner core. Now, scientists have revealed a new, distinct layer within our planet’s inner ...

The early Earth was a very different place. Go back 4 billion years and the Earth's surface was mostly basalt -- the stuff of oceanic crust. After the formation of the planet (and the subsequent ...