The make-up of the Earth, then, is a far more complex picture than people might recognise. “The oldest oceanic crust that exists anymore on Earth is about 180 million years old,” Dr Brenhin said.

These results suggest the existence of a process recycling marine carbon into Earth's mantle, which could contribute to regulating the global carbon cycle and maintaining conditions favorable for life ...

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

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

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

The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want to know why ...

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