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 ...

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 ...

A team of geochemists has found new evidence that Earth has been consistently churning out crust since its formation ... At first the analysis revealed nothing of note. Concerned, Yang, a doctoral ...

Why would any planet have two different peaks for the distribution of elevation? For Earth, the explanation is relatively straight forward: we have two types of crust. Oceanic crust that underlies the ...

Beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, the crust is peeling away. This process, called lithospheric foundering, is nothing to worry ... the upper part of Earth's mantle and part of the ...

that the crust was much thicker than it is today, but after Pangea broke apart the earth’s interior started to cool down. It is worth nothing that this cooling is entirely unrelated to short ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...