Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

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

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

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

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

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

They have elaborated on the geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, but a more seminal contribution is their study on the North China Craton, the large block of the Earth’s crust forming ...

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.