Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

These tremors, detected between 6 and 12 miles (10-20 km) below the ocean floor, occur in the hot mantle, well below the boundary between the rigid lithosphere and the ductile mantle, known as the BDB ...

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 ...

This is a cartoon showing the big mantle wedge beneath eastern Asia and lithosphere thinning process of the North China craton caused by carbonated metasomatism of the lithosphere mantle.

My research lies at the intersection of structural geology, structural petrology, tectonic analysis, and metamorphic / igneous geology. As a quantitative, field-based geologist, I integrate a variety ...