With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading ...

A new geological study has revealed that the Indian Plate, long believed to slide smoothly beneath the Tibetan Plateau, is actually tearing and warpi ...

More information: Wenzhi Fan et al, Weak asthenosphere beneath the Eurasian interior inferred from Aral Sea desiccation, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-025-01664-w ...

This delayed response in a hot, weak region of the mantle called the asthenosphere is why the uplift is ongoing, even decades after the water was removed, he says. Rebound in the upper mantle is ...

These plates residing over the asthenosphere, a warm and soft region within Earth's upper mantle, remain moving. To the north of Bangladesh is the junction of the Indian Plate and the Eurasian ...

Below is the asthenosphere: the warm, viscous conveyor belt of rock on which tectonic plates ride. They do not all not move in the same direction and often clash. This builds up a huge amount of ...

“The unbending creates space, and the rocks want to flow into it,” says Barbot. This delayed response in a hot, weak region of the mantle called the asthenosphere is why the uplift is ongoing, even ...

Here, the Indian Plate is breaking into layers. The crust is peeling away from the mantle, and a soft, hot rock layer from inside the Earth, called the asthenosphere, is pushing in between. This ...