Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Small tremors often precede a major earthquake — what we call foreshocks. And right now, we're seeing a lot of them. In the ...

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

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

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

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

The distinctive signature of the continental crust matched the probable signature of material extracted from the mantle after core formation but before meteorites bombarded early Earth—solving ...