“We discovered how subduction works during the plate tectonic revolution in the 60s,” he said. “First, we had discovered the oceanic crust actually moves. People thought it used to just sit there, but ...

At depths exceeding 2,500 meters, researchers aboard the research vessel Falkor have uncovered a bustling ecosystem teeming with life. The Schmidt Ocean Institute’s team utilized advanced ...

The Earth's oceanic crust covers an enormous expanse, and is mostly buried beneath a thick layer of mud that cuts it off from the surface world. Scientists now document life deep within the ...

The oldest known bit of oceanic crust is sitting at the bottom of the Mediterranean The oldest patch of undisturbed oceanic crust on Earth may lie deep beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea ...

"We know that Earth's oceanic crust accounts for 60 percent of Earth's surface, and on average is four miles thick," said geomicrobiologist Mark Lever of Denmark's Aarhuis University, part of a ...

Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all Date: November 29, 2009 Source: Brown University Summary: Earth scientists have found strong evidence that the geological processes that lead to the ...

The segregated oceanic crust may stay at the bottom of the mantle transition zone for the negative buoyancy and this can well explain the observed seismic scattering and week P660P phase.

Eclogitic diamonds formed in Earth's mantle originate from oceanic crust, rather than marine sediments as commonly thought, according to a new study from University of Alberta geologists.

The mantle isn't liquid, but it's less rigid than sinking oceanic crust, Sunyoung Park, an assistant professor who studies Earth's internal structure at the University of Chicago, told Live Science.

An artist's impression of the early Earth Earth’s continental crust may have emerged 500 million years earlier than scientists had previously estimated. Pinning down when our planet's land ...