Microscopic zircon crystals discovered in Western Australia suggest that Earth may have had continental crust as early as 4.4 ...

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Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did this process begin? When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

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Ever since the late 1990s, there's been one dominant theory for how Earth's enormous coal reserves were created: Coal is the fossilized carbon remains of plants that died hundreds of millions of years ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, my colleagues and I have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth’s ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet’s magma creates continents – and may have even helped create life. In ...

Pannotia occupies an awkward position in Earth science. It is described in textbooks and review papers, yet its outline remains faint. The proposed supercontinent is said to have existed around 600 ...