Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

A massive eruption of magma around 135 million years ago may have been the driving force behind the tectonic rift that split ...

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

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

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

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

The Yellowstone Caldera is often referred to as the Yellowstone Supervolcano due to its colossal size; it's one of the ...

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

Research results showed Earth’s earliest crust – known as the protocrust – that formed during the Hadean eon, would have a chemical composition identical to that of the modern average ...