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

Its crust separates from the underlying mantle, and a hot, soft layer of rock from the Earth's interior—the asthenosphere ... that the nascent Tibetan lithosphere in the east extends nearly ...

Its crust separates from the underlying mantle, and a hot, soft layer of rock from the Earth’s interior—the asthenosphere—slides between ... also suggests that the nascent Tibetan lithosphere in the ...

She analyzes and models large datasets of seismic data to measure the structure of the crust and mantle, including the properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere, and the signatures of ...

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 ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in ...

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 ...