Here’s how it works. Like a fine French bread, Earth would be nothing without its crust. And like a fine French wine, that crust has aged exceptionally well. The rigid, rocky continental crust ...

IN reference to the letter of Dr. Harold Jeffreys (NATURE, July 29, 1922), I wish at once to say that nothing in ... time or other, the earth may well have possessed a crust consolidated from ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into ... underlying the region. It's nothing to worry about. Only recently discovered ...

Recent evidence suggests that Earth's crust and oceans may have formed within ... If Earth becomes uninhabitable we have nowhere else to go. Colonizing the Moon and Mars is no substitute for ...

In a stunning discovery, scientists have confirmed the presence of a hidden underground ocean deep below the Earth’s crust ... new questions about where else water could be hiding.

in concentrations found nowhere else on Earth’s crust. Until now, it was an open question of how these concentrations were achieved, but Yale scientists have quantitatively modeled the journey of ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

ON March 23 last Prof. Green sent to NATURE some remarks upon Mr. Hill's review of my “Physics of the Earth's Crust.” More lately the third edition of his “Physical Geology” has appeared ...

This information could help answer a fundamental question about our planet and could even help scientists understand more about the formation of other planets. Aerial view of the Earth’s surface ...

A major explosion could see "fountains of diamonds" erupt from the Earth's crust during a geological event. Gernon and his researchers analysed kimberlites - rock which contains diamonds - and ...

According to the team, at intervals within those billion or so years, up to a third of Earth’s crust was sawn off by Snowball Earth’s roaming glaciers and their erosive capabilities.

Geoscientists have made an unprecedented achievement on their 60-year quest to know more about Earth's mysterious depths ... shifting plate tectonics in the ocean crust fueled by heat from ...