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

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate, an ancient tectonic plate, which is influencing the mantle and causing blobs of rock to detach and sink. The Midwest of the United States is ...

The researchers found that the drips result from the downward dragging force of a chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient tectonic plate called the Farallon plate. The Farallon plate ...

It also helped the researchers deduce that the Farallon Plate, an oceanic tectonic plate that has been subducting under North America for about the past 200 million years, could be driving the ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock — and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth’s mantle may be the ...

Geologists attribute the Laramide Orogeny to the subduction of an oceanic plate, specifically the Farallon Plate, beneath the North American Plate. This subduction began roughly 160 million years ...

It seems the Farallon is getting its revenge ... of the age of the Earth by buckling to every washed-up former oceanic plate that comes along. The North China Craton’s still here, and Laurentia ...

This model brought the drips into view for the first time in this way. It also helped the researchers deduce that the Farallon Plate, an oceanic tectonic plate that has been subducting under North ...