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

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

1 Hubei Subsurface Multi-scale Imaging Key Laboratory, School of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China 2 Hainan Investigation Institute of Hydrogeology and ...

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 ...

A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time, allowing land animals such as the ...

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 crust — a ...

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 crust ...