Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

For example, the North China Craton lost its deepest root layer millions ... played an important role in shaping the North American plate. The researchers think that it is now wearing away at ...

Scientists had posited that there was something beneath the North American craton causing the drips, and that something turned out to be a "chunk of oceanic crust that broke off from an ancient ...

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 ...