Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A major geological find has been unearthed under the frozen waters of the Davis Strait, the narrow ocean channel between ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere. (This includes the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.) Churning currents in the molten rocks below propel them along like a ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Separately, the planet Venus, which does not have plate tectonics like Earth, has evidence of these lithospheric foundering events, and by understanding the process on Earth, we can start to apply ...

When the lithosphere is broken into a number of plates is called the Lithospheric plates. The plates are moving because they are floating on the molten magma inside the earth. The movement of ...

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation occurs within the earth at scales from mineral fabrics to lithospheric plates, and at time frames ranging from ...

The Farallon plate is interacting with the whole North American craton ... we have a better representation of that important ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...