Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada, Earth's lithosphere may be peeling away
The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...
Las Vegas Sun9d
Sierra Nevada snowpack declines after very dry January — but promising storms are arriving to replenish it
The statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, which provides nearly one-third of California’s water supply, began the year in good ...
The Washington Post9d
Trump opened the ‘valve’ on California water. It will probably be wasted.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released water from two reservoirs in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada to meet President Donald Trump’s recent directive to funnel more water to ...
SFGate27d
'We need to be prepared': La Niña to bring extreme weather shifts to California
Meanwhile, southern parts of the Sierra Nevada have below-average snowpacks, according to data from the California Cooperative Snow Surveys program. As of Jan. 13, the southern Sierra Nevada’s ...
Phys.org21d
Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada, Earth's lithosphere may be peeling away
Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah ... that a section of the lithosphere beneath the southern Sierra sank (foundered) millions of years ago.