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The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

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The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

Part of the issue was the lack of zircon, the hardy mineral often used for dating ancient rocks ... Researchers believe the site was once ancient oceanic crust, transformed under immense heat and ...

A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

Oceanic crust has been made almost continuously for 3.8 billion years at mid-ocean ridges, a network of volcanoes that stretches 40,000 miles around the planet.

Far below Earth’s crust, nearly 400 miles down, scientists found something astonishing: a hidden ocean locked inside rock. This underground sea isn’t like the oceans we see.

The oldest oceanic plates on Earth date back about 200 million years. In contrast, the crust of continents lies under shallow oceans and land. It is highly variable in composition and age.

A plate is about 100 kilometres thick and has a “crust” embedded in the top, created by melting and other chemical reactions. New oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges by melting the ...