New Model Helps Explain the Softness in Earth’s Lithosphere

A new model from researchers at Yale University helps 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-motion convection of Earth’s solid, yet ductile, interior. It is the “plate” of plate tectonics, the system of interlocking fragments that […]
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