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

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 ...

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, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

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

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.