Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

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

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

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

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

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

an oceanic tectonic plate that has been subducting under North America for about the past 200 million years, could be driving the process despite being separated from the craton by about 600 ...

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