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 ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle... | Earth And The ...

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Far be it from us to suggest there’s a parallel between the continental plate’s behavior and what is happening on top, but ...

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

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

Earth’s continents have regions of ... authors attribute to large portions of the craton’s lowest layer dripping off into the mantle. We can’t witness it directly, but geologists can observe ...

Earth’s interior can be divided into several layers: the crust, the mantle, the liquid outer core, and the solid inner core ...

A newly found super-Earth could help provide answers as to why there are hardly any planets twice the diameter of Earth.