Yale researchers have proposed a new model to explain the drop in elastic stiffness in the middle of the Earth’s continental lithosphere. Lithosphere is the stiff layer of rock that lies atop the slow ...
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 ...