The discovery by Indian and British scientists that the Earth's strong outer shell -- the 'lithosphere' -- within the central Indian Ocean began to deform and fracture 15.4--13.9 million years ago, ...

Boulder, Colo., USA – New Lithosphere science posted online 4 June 2012 includes a study of the Valles Marineris fault zone, Mars, and asks why such a trough system occurs there, when such structures ...

This study is led by Dr. Jian Lin (Southern University of Science and Technology) and Dr. Fan Zhang (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences). “Water is crucial to ...

Lithosphere is moving to Phenom to support the drive towards Open Access and Open Science in the geoscience research community Phenom combines Hindawi's new modular publishing system developed using ...

The October 2013 Lithosphere is now online. Locations studied include the Central Iberian Massif in Spain; Arctic Alaska; the Wet Mountains of Central Colorado, USA; the Basgo Formation in northwest ...

Machine generated contents note: Foreword; Preface; 1. What is the lithosphere?; 2. Age of the lithosphere; 3. Seismic structure of the lithosphere; 4. Thermal regime of the lithosphere from heat flow ...