A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

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

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

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

More of North America’s Craton lies in Canada than the USA ... Observing the drips’ location led the researchers to identify the Farallon Plate as the culprit. The Farallon was an oceanic plate that ...

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

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

an oceanic tectonic plate that has been subducting under North America for about the past 200 million years, could be driving the process despite being separated from the craton by about 600 ...

Scientists had posited that there was something beneath the North American craton causing the drips, and that something ...

However, the interesting part of the North American craton discovery is that the changes ... driving the dripping can influence how tectonic plates evolve over time, but they are very slow going ...