The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in ...

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

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 ...

New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

But new research published on March 28 in Nature Geoscience suggests that a long-lost geological plate may be siphoning rock from the bottom of the North American craton, eroding it from below ...

Beneath the center of North America, pieces of the deep continental ... When they included the Farallon Plate in the model, the craton started to drip. When the plate was removed, the dripping ...

The Farallon slab, a sunken tectonic plate, appears to be the cause ... reveals something surprising: parts of the North American craton are actively thinning, possibly due to forces pulling ...

For instance, the North China Craton underwent significant disintegration ... once played a pivotal role in shaping the North American plate, its ongoing subduction is supplying a steady flow ...

The Farallon plate is interacting with the whole North American craton, but the dripping is concentrated in the Midwest. The researchers used a full-waveform tomographic model of the North ...