A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

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New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Extreme heat deep in Earth’s crust forged the strong, stable continents that have endured for billions of years.

For billions of years, Earth's continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two million square miles. Though mostly underwater, this geological giant has ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...