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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

Avian influenza, which primarily affects poultry, has now adapted to wild birds, accompanying them in their journeys across ...

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 ...

Languages: English. North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the ...

Dinosaurs may not have been declining before the asteroid impact after all – new research shows that the apparent drop in ...