The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

A hotspot that is now located in the Atlantic played a key role in forming the lakes, home to a fifth of the world's fresh ...

The dynamic outer shell of our planet, often referred to as the lithosphere, is a fascinating mosaic of tectonic plates.

The processes led to the lithosphere, which consists of the Earth's crust and upper mantle, thinning and extending seaward. The NCC was specifically studied, but "the North American craton ...

The Earth's mantle isn't just a hot, dense layer of rock; it's a dynamic and diverse engine driving our planet's geology.

Professor Iain Stewart explains how the temperature of the earth is affected by its orbit round the sun, and the tilt of its axis. This was a theory put forward by James Croll. Professor Stewart ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

They used the magnetotelluric method 5 to measure the electrical resistivity of the region's lithosphere with naturally occurring radio waves. Fluid-rich zones of the Earth's lithosphere show low ...