Continental lithosphere is deformed, destroyed, or otherwise modified in several ways.
Processes that modify the lithosphere include subduction, terrane accretion, orogenesis …

Seismic anisotropy beneath eastern North America, as expressed in shear wave splitting
observations, has been attributed to plate motion‐parallel shear in the asthenosphere …

A long‐standing question is how felsic continental crust is differentiated from its mafic parent
mantle magmas. One currently proposed fundamental mechanism is lithospheric foundering …

The northern Appalachians record accretion of Laurentia‐and Gondwana‐derived terranes
to Laurentian margin during the formation of Pangea. Terrane bounding structures, key to …

Plate tectonics is a vital factor to the uniqueness and habitability of the Earth. Fundamental
plate tectonic processes including subduction, terrane accretion, and continental rifting not …