Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...

Arc magmatism is thought to have played a central role in creating continental crust because magmatic rocks — erupted as andesitic lavas and intruded to form plutons — found in subduction-related ...

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features associated with continental crust. However, a recent study published in ...