A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

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

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

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

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling large parts of North America’s crust into the Earth’s mantle. This process, ...

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 ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

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

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process providing new information about how continents and landmasses evolve.