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 ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

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 ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

"Because of the use of this full-waveform method, we have a better representation of that important zone between the deep mantle and [overlying] shallow lithosphere where we would expect to get ...