The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A newly analyzed medieval manuscript suggests that sailors from the same region as Christopher Columbus may have known about ...

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

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

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

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

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