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

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

The first emergence and persistence of continental crust on Earth during the Archaean (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago) has important implications for plate tectonics, ocean chemistry, and ...

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 ...

Earth’s continental crust may have begun forming hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought, Yale scientists say — and the reason will be obvious to anyone who has ever baked a cake ...

“By incorporating this effect, we were able to demonstrate that even though the first evidence of a depleted mantle was seen only 3.8 billion years ago, the real continental crust was formed about 0.7 ...

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.

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 ...

New continental crust comes from continental arc volcanoes found at subduction zones like the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. These zones are where an oceanic ...

Researchers have published a new study that found the continental crust on Earth emerged 500 million years earlier than previously believed. According to the team, the first emergence and ...