Africa is currently experiencing geological processes that could lead to the separation of the Somali Peninsula from the rest ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

‘If rifting continues, new basaltic oceanic crust may ... that the lithosphere, a layer of the Earth’s mantle that ‘floats’ on the more fluid-like and weaker asthenosphere, could be ...

I am particularly interested in the role of melts at structural, rheological, and/or chemical boundaries in the Earth, such as the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary, the transition zone (410-660 km), ...

before pulling it down into the Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust. Using a high-resolution seismic technique called full ...

They then used a model of the crust and mantle beneath the Aral ... This delayed response in a hot, weak region of the mantle called the asthenosphere is why the uplift is ongoing, even decades ...

Deep under the Midwest, chunks of Earth’s crust are slowly sinking into the mantle like molasses. 'Helium hint from Tibet': India’s plate may be peeling like layers of a giant geologic onion ...

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere, is made up of the rigid crust and the top part of the mantle, which is in a denser, but more fluid state. This layer also contains Earth’s oceanic ...