A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Earth, since its inception, has gone through many changes. The present world is drastically different from the past. Many ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

This zone marks the interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As the subducted plate descends, the heat from the earth's ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...