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

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

Earth, since its inception, has gone through many changes. The present world is drastically different from the past. Many ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...

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.

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 ...

Despite being tied together beneath the surface, these regions diverge sharply above it. Iceland and the Azores are politically and culturally European. Cuba is firmly part of Latin America, while the ...

Employees working at steel manufacturer Evraz North America in Portland between 2017 and 2019 skipped over some obligatory tests and registered fake results for nearly 13,000 armor plates ...

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

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 ...