Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

A new study has revealed the fascinating origins of some of the world’s largest copper deposits, located in the Gangdese Belt of southern Tibet. Contrary to conventional beliefs that associate these ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passing through the Milky Way’s arms may have helped form Earth’s solid ground Our planet’s journey through the galaxy syncs up with the rhythm of long-ago crust formation ...