The Andes Mountains: The Andes Mountains are a prime example of a continental-oceanic subduction zone, where the Nazca Plate ...

Boulder, CO, USA - October Lithosphere articles cover diverse locations: the South Tibetan detachment in the eastern Himalaya of Bhutan; metamorphic rocks in the Aegean region; the Volcanic Tableland ...

Venus might be our neighbor in the solar system, but there’s a lot we still don’t know about the planet. That’s partly because of its high temperatures and atmospheric pressure which make it difficult ...

Boulder, CO, USA – The Geological Society of America is pleased to announce the newest addition to its collection of premier peer-reviewed, earth-science journals. Lithosphere is scheduled to launch ...

A study of a giant impact crater on Venus suggests that its lithosphere was too thick to have had Earth-like plate tectonics, at least for much of the past billion years. At some point between 300 ...