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 ...

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

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 ...

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

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South America, a continent that has the world’s largest river by volume, the River Amazon; the longest mountain range, the Andes ...

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