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

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

The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging technique called "full-waveform inversion." ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the reason ...

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

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 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 ...

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

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

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

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into the mantle due to the continued influence of the Farallon Plate, which has been subducting under the continent for 200 ...