A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

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

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

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

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

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

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

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

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