In a remarkable geological finding, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.This ...

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

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

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 ...

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