With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading ...

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet’s crust — or ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

The lithosphere is broken up into what are called ... The lithospheric plates ride on the asthenosphere. These plates move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries ...

The crust is peeling away from the mantle, and a soft, hot rock layer from inside the Earth, called the asthenosphere ... also notes that the eastern Tibetan lithosphere stretches about 100 kilometers ...