Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is slowly sinking, creating a new geological phenomenon.

Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is gradually subsiding, creating a novel geological phenomenon.

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, ...

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 ...

The extraction of iron, which led to the Iron Age, is a chemical process which early metallurgists developed without understanding any of the science involved. Nevertheless, they were still able ...

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 ...

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