The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Miles beneath the ocean there are numerous sunken lands just waiting to be discovered. How did these lost lands form, and what would they be like today if they had been just a little higher up ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...

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

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

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 ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

In a surprising new discovery, scientists have found that the underside of the North American continent is slowly “dripping” ...