Iceland is one of the most active volcanic regions in the world, but its seismic nature is part of a much broader geological ...

Dive into the world beneath your feet and discover what tectonic plates are, how they move, and why they're responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, and the shifting of continents.

Beneath the lithosphere lies the asthenosphere, which behaves like an extremely slow-moving liquid over time, meaning the plates above it never sit entirely stationary.

Density interface inversion is an important approach for quantitative interpretation of gravity data, used to reveal the morphology of structural interfaces such as the basement, Moho boundary, and ...

Abstract: Detailed high-resolution images of the crust–mantle and lithosphere–asthenosphere boundaries (the Moho and the LAB, respectively) have been well observed by applying an S-receiver function ...

One of the more distinctive things about Earth among the planets is that we have plate tectonics.In other words, the hard, outer shell of the planet (called the lithosphere) is divided into several ...

One of the more distinctive things about Earth among the planets is that we have plate tectonics.In other words, the hard, outer shell of the planet (called the lithosphere) is divided into several ...

Here's What'll Happen When Plate Tectonics Grinds to a Halt. A new study says we may only have another 1.45 billion years to enjoy the dynamic action of Earth’s geologic engine.