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Image for World’s oldest impact crater found, rewriting Earth’s ancient history

World’s oldest meteorite crater found in Australia

Redefining Earth’s Early History.

Evidence of an ancient seafloor that sank deep into Earth

Ancient sunken seafloor reveals earth’s deep secrets.

mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami

A mountaintop collapsed into the sea and triggered a mega-tsunami

Greenland landslide caused nine-day earthquake.

granitoid rocks

Source rocks of the first real continents uncovered

A missing link in the enigmatic story of how the continents developed.

fissures and pores running through rocks

Sounds of Earth’s crust

MIT scientists find the sounds beneath our feet are fingerprints of rock stability.

Earth with the upper mantle

A molten rock layer discovered hidden under Earth’s tectonic plates

The study might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move.

Image showing continents

Evidence that giant meteorite impacts formed Earth’s continents

Giant impacts provide a mechanism for fracturing the crust.

When did earth's plate subduction begin?

When did earth’s plate subduction begin?

Several billion-year-old rocks tell the story of the planet’s transition from alien landscape to one of continents, oceans, and ultimately life.

Revealing atmosphere loss during planetary collisions

Revealing atmosphere loss during planetary collisions

Giant impacts have a wide range of consequences for young planets and their atmospheres.

Scientists examined hundreds of samples taken along the global ridges that contain recycled ancient oceanic crust in variable amounts. “Depleted" segments of the ridge received lower than “normal” amounts of recycled crust, while “enriched” segments contain a larger proportion of recycled crust.

The mystery of Earth’s vanishing crust solved

The Earth's crust is what we live on and is by far the thinnest layers of Earth. The thickness varies depending on where you...

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