Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

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

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 ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

This computer model utilized seismic data collected by the EarthScope project and revealed fresh details about the geologic processes happening in the crust and mantle underlying North America.

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 ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have found that lower part of the continent North America is slowly draining into the Earth’s interior. A new study suggests that this process may be ...

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 ...

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 ...