Little is known about the nature and evolution of Earth's continental crust before a few billion years ago because cratons, ...

Researchers suggest that the famed Golconda diamonds, including the Hope Diamond and Koh-i-noor, may have originated from a ...

The lack of volcanism and tectonic activity on Europa’s seafloor might hinder the moon’s potential to host living organisms.

The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.) Churning currents in the molten rocks below propel them along like a ...

It now also includes an exploration of the role of flexure in landscape evolution and dynamic topography and discussions of lithosphere memory, inheritance, and new NASA mission topography and gravity ...

Thankfully, though, the Atlantic’s oceanic lithosphere is thick and strong, which should make it more resistant to breaking and bending, the researchers explain in their paper. Of course ...

Plate motion is not the only force acting on the Earth’s surface. Volcanic activity, tidal forcing, temperature variations, ...

Both life and geological processes get their start in the Archaean era amidst a brew of atmospheric gases that probably includes methane and ammonia but little or no free oxygen. As Earth cools, a ...

The 1999 earthquake in Taiwan was a major wake-up call which led to critical administrative reforms to improve the emergency ...