"I think it's still considered one of the great unsolved problems in geophysics today." Earth's lithosphere — its crust and rigid upper mantle — is split into roughly 15 constantly-moving plates.

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

A slab of colder continental lithosphere also has the capacity to ... of a process of differentiation that occurs throughout Earth's crust, they argue.

destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Analysis of historical earthquake records and interseismic deformation across the East Anatolian Fault Zone suggests that ...

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 ...

The layers can also be categorized into the rigid outer lithosphere (which includes the crust and top portion of the mantle and makes up Earth's tectonic plates) and the athenosphere, the portion ...

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 ...

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 ...