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

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.

Scientists had posited that there was something beneath the North American craton causing the drips, and that something ...

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

Even though the Farallon Plate once played a pivotal role in shaping the North American plate, its ongoing subduction is supplying a steady flow of magma while releasing volatile compounds that ...

The plate, which was first seismically imaged in the 1990s by Grand, played an important role in shaping the North American plate. The researchers think that it is now wearing away at the ...

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 ...

The Farallon plate is interacting with the whole North American craton, but the dripping is concentrated in the Midwest. The researchers used a full-waveform tomographic model of the North ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...