The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

Scientists have discovered portions of the Earth's crust sinking into the mantle beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains ...

Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

Scientists have discovered evidence that California is actually peeling apart below the surface, as dense rocks under the ...

Scientists discovered a hidden process where Earth's crust peels away and sinks, reshaping continents over millions of years, revealing Earth's slow evolution.

Using nearly four decades of seismic data from stations encompassing the northern, central, and southern Sierra Nevada along California's eastern border, geologists have uncovered signs of a critical ...

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

Some can be nearly as old as the solar system itself, about 4.6 billion years. Continental crust is generally higher in silica, which makes it less dense. This low density makes continents too ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the continental base, in combination with metamorphic rocks ...