This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

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Volcanoes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and volcanoes and featuring case studies from ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet's magma creates continents - and may have even helped create life.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Continental clues: Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents.

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...