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

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

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

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle... | Earth And The ...

(Representational) A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the Earth's mantle, scientists have found. The finding ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

One of these slabs currently straddles the boundary between the mantle ... The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high ...

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

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

The slab of rock is applying a downward dragging force on the continent and is "both redirecting the flow of material in the mantle ... part of the North American craton discovery is that the ...