When 94-year-old Amy Craton accepted her diploma earlier this week, she become one of the world's oldest college graduates When 94-year-old Amy Craton accepted her diploma earlier this week, she ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained unchanged ...

There are 35 large Archean cratons around the world that form the geologic core of tectonic plates. Because they’re located at the interior of plates, these landmasses often remain unaltered over the ...

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 ...

Honolulu, H.I. (January 17, 2017) - Ninety-four-year-old Amy Craton was surprised with a graduation celebration in Honolulu yesterday after achieving her lifelong dream of earning a college degree.

In the course of billions of years continents break up, drift apart, and are pushed back together again. The cores of continents are, however, geologically extremely stable and have survived up to 3.8 ...