The asthenosphere concept dates from early studies of isostasy 1, bolstered by the existence of a seismic “low velocity zone or LVZ” 2 beneath what we now understand to be the lithosphere. The upper ...

Foreland basins develop where advancing orogenic belts impose a load on the adjacent lithosphere, causing it to flex and generate a trough for sediment accommodation. This flexural response produces a ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (GIG-CAS), along with international collaborators, reveals that ...

The oceanic lithosphere forms at the summit of ocean ridges during seafloor spreading. Still, the formation of ocean basins is complex, influenced by smaller-scale convection, stagnated pieces of the ...

Ophiolite genesis and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere : proceedings of the Ophiolite Conference, held in Muscat, Oman, 7-18 January 1990 / edited by Tj. Peters, A. Nicolas, and R.G. Coleman ...