Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

Roughly 155 million years ago, a continent called Argoland broke off from what is now Australia, and then vanished without a ...

From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, Earth was seemingly quite a boring place. Continents moved little, and life ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

The study also compared the results with measurements of lunar anorthosites, which are rare rocks on Earth but very common on ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

By studying ancient lava flows that fractured over Turkey’s Tuz Gölü Fault, researchers at Curtin University have uncovered ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

Detached continental material travels into oceanic mantle, sustaining eruptions for tens of millions of years, researchers ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time provides ...