A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Beneath the American Midwest, part of the continent is gradually losing its foundation. This slow geological phenomenon, ...

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

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far beneath researchers’ feet. Earth’s continents have regions of very old and ...

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

For example, the North China Craton lost its deepest root layer millions of years ago. What makes ... deduce that the Farallon Plate, an oceanic tectonic plate that has been subducting under North ...

A long-lost tectonic plate called the Farallon Plate, which has been sliding underneath North America for nearly 200 million years. Even though it now lies about 600 kilometers below the surface ...

Ancient Earth movements, probably connected with the initial unzipping of the Atlantic Ocean over 200 million years ago, caused long fault zones to form and mud with fossils was sucked into the ...