Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

This landmass, composed of thick continental crust, formed during the separation of Greenland and North America. The discovery highlights the significant role of lithospheric structures in ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

Between 61 and 33 million years ago, Earth’s crust fractured, initiating a period of continental rifting and seafloor spreading. Researchers have identified a partially submerged continental ...

This layer also contains Earth's oceanic crust — a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above this layer. But how these sublayers manage to exist in ...