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 ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

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

"Because of the use of this full-waveform method, we have a better representation of that important zone between the deep ...

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

For example, the North China Craton lost its deepest root layer millions ... important zone between the deep mantle and the shallower lithosphere where we would expect to get clues on what's ...

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