Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as ...

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

A new study has changed what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s early history. Researchers have discovered that the ...

What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...

Chemical clues to formation The initial results from the model showed that under the reducing conditions of early Earth, the ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological ... magma between them created crust similar to what we find in ocean floors today.