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 ...

Scientists are observing a new ocean forming in Africa's Afar region, a unique geological hotspot. Early magnetic surveys from 1968, combined with recent data from the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, reveal ...

Except perhaps for some remote island dwellers, most people have a natural tendency to view continents as fundamental, permanent and even characteristic features of Earth. One easily forgets that the ...

Boulder, CO, USA – A new volume published by the Geological Society of America brings together 29 landmark papers on the formation of continental crust. 4-D Framework of Continental Crust includes the ...

How do you make half the mass of two continents disappear? To answer that question, you first need to discover that it’s missing. That’s what a trio of University of Chicago geoscientists and their ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent ...

Scientists have shown that south east Iceland is underlain by continental crust. An international team, including researchers at the University of Liverpool, have shown that south east Iceland is ...

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere denser than the underlying mantle. One theory holds that the lower ...

For decades, geologists have known that a huge portion of Earth’s earliest continental crust simply vanished from the rock ...

Much Antarctic research focuses on ice — and rightfully so, since a giant ice cap up to 2,361 miles (3,800 meters) thick covers about 99 percent of the continent. But under that layer of frozen water, ...