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

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in ...

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

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

Cratons are the oldest and most stable blocks of the continent that have endured ... a full-waveform seismic tomographic model for North America. This computer model utilized seismic data ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

Recent geopolitical action could impact industries that rely on cross-border supply chains.

but their presence appears to be impacting the entire continent. The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North America being pulled toward it horizontally before ...

A major breakthrough in paleontology has shifted our understanding of the woolly mammoth’s presence in North America. A ...