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

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, ...

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

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

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

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the ...