Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.

Ancient rocks reveal water moved deep underground over three billion years ago. This process, called dripduction, occurred ...

Ancient iron deposits reveal how mountain building and the spread of land plants transformed Earth's iron cycle over the past ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth's surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved ...

Researchers have discovered chemical fingerprints of Earth's earliest incarnation, preserved in ancient mantle rocks. A unique imbalance in potassium isotopes points to remnants of “proto Earth” ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major role in shaping Earth's interior and driving volcanic activity more than 3 ...

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The analysis of ancient, superdeep diamonds dug up from mines in Brazil and Western Africa, has exposed new processes of how continents evolved and moved during the early evolution of complex life on ...

For millions of years, Earth was a fiery hellscape, inhospitable to life. For millions of years, ancient Earth was a fiery hellscape of volcanic activity, totally inhospitable to life. See what our ...

A 3.5-billion-year-old rock in India contains directly dated carbon with a chemical signature consistent with ancient ...

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