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

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

If the U.S. could tap into just 2 percent of the geothermal power beneath Earth’s crust, it could supply more than 2,000 times our total annual energy consumption.

Around 4.3 billion years ago, a planetary blob of hot molten rock named Earth cooled just enough to start forming a crust. Billions of years later, humans evolved.

According to SpaceRef, "Earth's outer shell consists of about 15 shifting blocks of crust," that have been moving over millions of years to form the continents and unique landforms that currently ...

Fun fact: The crust makes up only 1% of the volume of Earth. 2. Mantle. Just below the crust lies the mantle. The mantle is semi-liquid, sort of like a malleable plastic and makes up 84% of Earth ...

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

We have never, ever drilled into the mantle that lies just beneath Earth’s crust. ... (0.9 miles) into Earth’s crust in a campaign known as the Slow Spreading Ridge Moho project, or SloMo.

Earth's Crust: The crust is the absolute outermost layer of the Earth, which constitutes just 1% of the Earth's total mass. The thickness of the crust varies depending on where the measurements ...

Instead, parts of the Andes look like they sprung from sudden upward pulses in the crust throughout the Cenozoic era — Earth's current geological period, which began roughly 66 million years ago.

There’s a curious 200-million-year rhythm to Earth’s crust production. Now, it seems like our very place in the galaxy is tied to it. ... This work has just been published in the journal Geology.