The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

Snow storms caused drivers to be extra cautious traveling I-80 on Tuesday with the higher elevations in the Sierra getting a ...

The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...

Instead of major fires the Golden State will be delt with major rainfall with precipitation amounts that could reach over half a foot over the next week.

Conclusive evidence of foundering, however, has been hard to come by. Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric ...