Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Upper-mantle seismic anisotropy from SKS splitting in the South American stable platform: A test of asthenospheric flow models beneath the LITHOSPHERE Marcelo Assumpção et al ... This study was ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar near Sagaing, causing significant damage and fatalities in Myanmar and Thailand.

Stamps teamed up with colleague Corné Kreemer, a research professor at the University of Nevada, and the result of their work, "Open Access GNSS Data for Studies of the Lithosphere," has been ...

Hovde Dean of the College of Science, began her deanship on September 1 ... understanding the stresses causing mountain building and earthquakes led Flesch to studying the kinematics and dynamics of ...

The April 2013 issue of Lithosphere is now available. Four classic research papers cover the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon and British Columbia, Canada; the Nacimiento fault near San Simeon, ...

Research opportunities are available for students to work with our faculty studying the Earth’s complex evolving systems and the interrelations among the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, ...

A new paper warns that an Atlantic Ring of Fire could form in the next 20 million years as new subduction zones invade the ...

Soil is the interface of Earth’s hydrosphere, atmosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. We focus on the chemical, physical, microbiological and biological processes in soil that control the fluxes 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 ...