The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's west coast, with the former sliding beneath the latter and recycling its material into the mantle.

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into the mantle due to the continued influence of the Farallon Plate, which has been subducting under the continent for 200 ...

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The study links the formation of these drips to the Farallon plate — a once-active oceanic plate that subducted beneath North America along its western edge. Around 20 million years ago ...

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 ...

What makes this even more intriguing is the suspected cause of the dripping: a long-lost oceanic tectonic plate called the Farallon Plate. Although it has been subducted—pulled under the North ...

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