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

Continental crust rises on average 125 meters above sea level, and some 15 percent of the continental area extends over two kilometers in elevation.

The continental crust is the layer of granitic, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. It ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The scientists computed with unprecedented precision the amount of landmass, or “continental crust,” before and after the collision. “What we found is that half of the mass that was there 60 million ...

Earth's continents have been leaking nutrients into the ocean for at least 3.7 billion years, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Continental crust — which is made of less dense rock than oceanic crust and therefore rises to higher elevations — came perhaps hundreds of millions of years later.

To do so, Dr. Ziyi Zhu, Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia, and colleagues developed a theoretical model for the mass/volume balance of continental crust and compared the amount of ...

Some areas of continental crust have maintained long-term stability from the beginning of Earth's history, with little destruction by tectonic events or mantle convection, known as cratons.

Continental crust is also much less dense than its oceanic counterpart. In 1962, famed Princeton geologist Harry Hess theorized that the thickness of continental crust had to do with sea level and ...

The continental crust, rich in silica and feldspar, could explain the different altitudes of the two hemispheres. Sautter explains that it may be the result of an “internal reason” under the ...