A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

In two recent studies, researchers suggest a weakening ocean current system is to blame for a persistent cold spot in the ...

That might sound like hair-splitting, but when you’re talking about the first 500 million years of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year existence, even a few hundred million years matter. Researchers believe the ...

Because subduction drags crust deep into the earth, its beginnings are hard to examine. The new study provides a rare ancient example of potential subduction “infection.” ...

They usually dive beneath a less dense oceanic or continental plate in a process known as subduction. This activity generates explosive volcanoes and fresh crust at the surface. 1:14 ...