As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction ... Cratonic thinning refers to the wearing away of cratons, which are regions of Earth's continental crust and upper ...