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A lost chunk of ancient continent is sucking bits of North America into Earth's mantleSeismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...
A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab. (Image credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience (2025)) ...
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Earth's Crust Is Dripping Under Midwest US, Scientists DiscoverLithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...
The processes led to the lithosphere, which consists of the Earth's crust and upper mantle, thinning and extending seaward. The NCC was specifically studied, but "the North American craton ...
‘If rifting continues, new basaltic oceanic crust may ... that the lithosphere, a layer of the Earth’s mantle that ‘floats’ on the more fluid-like and weaker asthenosphere, could be ...
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