The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

Mount Everest has rightful declared its place as the tallest mountain and highest point on Earth ... Orogeny ended millions of years ago, the Rockies are still slowly growing today. Tectonic ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in ... Meanwhile, the European Alps orogeny began forming around 35 million years ago, with ...

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

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

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...