A recent "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" showcased Nick Cave's journey, musical and personal, from cynic to hope-warrior ...

Although the tectonic origin of the East African Rift is fairly obvious, it's hard to imagine that its formation is the result of heat from the hot asthenosphere, which is a part of Earth's mantle.

Asthenosphere - A region of the earth that starts at the bottom of the lithosphere and extends to depths of approximately 300 km (180 miles). Conditions of high temperature and intermediate pressure ...

Climate change and asteroids are linked with animal origin and extinction—and plate tectonics also seems to play a key evolutionary role, "groundbreaking" new fossil research reveals.

Beneath the continent is the asthenosphere, the ductile upper layer of Earth’s mantle. How mantle waves buoy Earth’s surface to form broad plateaus The researchers also linked their ...

The plates are thicker under the continents than under the oceans. These plates slide and collide with each other in very slow motion on top of the asthenosphere -- a 200km thick layer of the mantle ...