North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Cratons are the most ancient, stable pieces of tectonic plates, but even these geological formations can change over time.A ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate. Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American ...