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

Their work, published in Nature Communications on January 10, 2025, opens new perspectives on the dynamics of the Earth's mantle. a ... than expected beneath the boundary between the lithosphere and ...

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

In the latter case, high temperatures and pressures lead to the reworking of the crust, affecting its ... of the lower continental lithosphere into the mantle, driven by the increased density ...

Tectonic plates float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere beneath them ... rigid segments of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle) that shift and interact at their boundaries.

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.