The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests ...

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

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The team used a new method of mapping the undersides of continental crust known as full-waveform seismic tomography. They found the first ... location led the researchers to identify the Farallon ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

An illustration of the thinning of the North American craton as a result of the influence of the subducting Farallon Plate. An illustration of the thinning of the North American craton as a result ...

Farallon slab linked to crust loss under Midwest, says seismic study Crust thinning traced to deep Farallon slab 660km below ...

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

The Farallon plate is interacting with the whole North American craton, but the dripping is concentrated in the Midwest. The researchers used a full-waveform tomographic model of the North ...

This model, called Seismic Adjoint Tomography of North America ... a long-lost oceanic tectonic plate called the Farallon Plate. Although it has been subducted—pulled under the North American ...