New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we associate with modern continents. This means the telltale fingerprints of ...

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

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

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

Despite its localised nature, the effects of this dripping are felt across a broad area of the North American craton, which spans much of the US and Canada.

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

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

The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by the remnants of the subducting Farallon slab below the craton.

Plate temperature and water release can explain the occurrence of different types of earthquakes in Guerrera, Mexico. A Kobe ...

Plate temperature and water release can explain the occurrence of different types of earthquakes in Guerrera, Mexico. The Kobe University simulation ...