New paper links formation of Earth’s continents to solar system’s passage through dense interstellar clouds within our Milky Way’s four spiral arms.

As scientists reconsider the structure of Earth’s continents, they will need to re-examine how geological processes such as subduction, continental drift, and microcontinent formation influence ...

Stargazing Meteors & Meteor Showers Giant meteorite strikes in Earth's distant history may have helped form continents News By Robert Lea last updated August 16, 2022 ...

"The geodynamic setting leading to the formation of Earth's first continents remains debated," David Hernández Uribe, an assistant professor of earth and environmental sciences, wrote in the paper.

New research provides strong evidence against continent formation above a hot mantle plume, similar to an environment that presently exists beneath the Hawaiian Islands.

Continents 4.5 billion years old, entombed nearly 2,000 miles underground, predate the formation of the moon and could shed light on how everything we know today came to be, according to new resear… ...

New research casts light on how earth’s first continents formed – and a key theory of geology ...

A fascinating new study reveals how two of Earth’s established continents may constitute one whole landmass in itself.

On the young Earth, continents were recycled all the time. Continental recycling still takes place today when two continents collide, but it progresses more slowly and in a different manner than ...

The formation of Earth’s continents billions of years ago set the stage for life to thrive. But scientists disagree over how those land masses formed and if it was through geological processes we ...

For more than a billion years, Earth covered itself in new continents. New research shows that those continents were quickly swallowed up again but their deaths fertilized life on the surface.