The North Atlantic craton once covered an area from modern-day Scotland to Labrador, Canada. The ancient continent formed part of Earth's continental crust before it was lost in the annals of time. We ...

New images of Earth's deep interior show craton erosion carving two channels hundreds of miles toward the Black Hills of ...

The seemingly stable regions of the Earth's continental plates -- the so-called stable cratons -- have suffered repetitive deformation below their crust since their formation in the remote past, ...

There’s interesting stuff down there, the North American craton: the continental nucleus, made up of precambrian rock—”precambrian” being the period which covers the first four billion of the Earth’s ...

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 ...

A geologic map of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. The rocks exposed here range from 2.5 to 3.5 billion years ago, offering a uniquely well-preserved window into Earth's deep past. The authors ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A University of Illinois-led team has identified unexpected geophysical signals underneath tectonically stable interiors of South America and Africa. The data suggest that geologic ...