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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

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 ...