Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's continental crust, cratons have remained largely unchanged for billions of years.

The crusty conundrum carries fundamental implications. The thickness of continental crust — the part of Earth’s crust that forms land masses and continents — plays an important role in everything from ...

Figure 1: Reconstruction of the Tasmanide accretionary event, showing indentation of continental ribbon material and lateral subduction. All four models show the same three stages of evolution: (1) a ...

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 commission.

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new exploration method to assist the oil and gas industry in identifying more precisely where the oceans and continents meet. Scientists at ...

Boulder, CO, USA - This new volume from The Geological Society of America provides a synthesis of crustal cross sections with a special emphasis on the western North American Cordillera. From the ...

The ChemCam laser instrument on NASA’s Curiosity rover has turned its beam onto some unusually light-colored rocks on Mars, and the results are surprisingly similar to Earth’s granitic continental ...

A team of Earth scientists has discovered that continents are slowly peeling apart from below—sending fragments deep into the ...

Add another mark to the tally of how similar Mars is to Earth. While evidence continues to mount for water on the Red Planet, an unexpected new piece of research has found that it may have a ...

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 commission.