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

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called “cratonic dripping.” This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate, an ...

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

In a surprising new discovery, scientists have found that the underside of the North American continent is slowly “dripping” ...

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 ...