As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

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Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles (201 km) depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab ... An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American ...

Geodynamic models say deep mantle flow from the long-subducted Farallon slab is likely behind the massive underground “drips” forming beneath North America.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Building on a larger project by Junlin Hua, lead author on the new study, the team created a full-waveform seismic tomographic model for North America. This computer model utilized seismic data ...

Most of the Farallon plate was eventually shoved beneath North America. Its remnants linger in the lower mantle, some 800 kilometers below Earth’s surface, and indeed showed up in the cross ...