Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth’s ... rock covered the planet’s surface. The team’s calculations showed the protocrust – Earth’s earliest ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

Earth's surface renews itself in a process known as the rock cycle. Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one ...

The crust is made from enormous plates which move very slowly due to movements of the mantle below. The Earth's structure. Planet Earth is not a solid ball of rock, it's made up of different layers.

An international team has identified a novel mechanism: "drops" of rock detaching from Earth's crust and plunging into the mantle. This discovery sheds light on continent dynamics over vast timescales ...

Researchers discover Earth's first crust ... ocean of molten rock. The models indicated that the chemical signature of the protocrust matched that of today’s continental crust and suggested ...

Below the Earth’s surface, a maze of underground tunnels and shafts pierces 3 kilometers of ancient volcanic rock. Were it not for a huge ventilation ... journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for ...