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

编者按揭示大陆地壳产生和稳定的精细过程具有挑战，但其对理解地球及其承载生命的长期演化至关重要。中国地质大学(北京)朱弟成教授团队对青藏高原南部冈底斯岩基的研究为理解大陆地壳的形成提供了新见解，为此澳大利亚科学院院士Peter A.

Geologists have attributed age-dependent variations in the chemistry of Ethiopian volcanic rocks to rhythmic pulses like a ...

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

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 ...

Continental crust is also less dense than oceanic crust, though it is considerably thicker; mostly 35 to 40 km versus the average oceanic thickness of around 7-10 km.

Oceanic crust is denser than continental crust and when two lithospheric plates — one oceanic and one continental — meet, the oceanic plate always subducts beneath the more buoyant continental ...

The research team identified that at least 30% of continental crust was lost to the mantle during the formation of the Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau and Zagros Mountains (potentially up to 64% for the ...

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 ...

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 ...