Recently, the journal SCIENCE CHINA Earth Sciences published a research by Professor Hongwei KUANG, Dr Nan PENG and Professor Yongqing LIU from the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological ...

Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...

Boulder, Colo., USA - The February 2014 Lithosphere is now online. Papers cover strain rates measured in travertine in the Rio Grande rift, central New Mexico; age dating of the granitic Neoarchean ...

Cratons are the most ancient, stable pieces of tectonic plates, but even these geological formations can change over time. A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into the ...

In the course of billions of years continents break up, drift apart, and are pushed back together again. The cores of continents are, however, geologically extremely stable and have survived up to 3.8 ...

Scientists of Hyderabad-based National Geophysical Research Institute have stumbled upon new clues from carbonaceous matter (CM containing carbon) in the rocks of Singhbhum craton in Jharkhand which ...