A 4.4 billion-year-old zircon from Jack Hills ... Credit: John Valley, University of Wisconsin-Madison To some researchers, this suggests Earth's crust may have been recycling in the Hadean. Water ...
A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...
Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...
As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the general public—that’s ...
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Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.
New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...
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