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

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 ...

More of North America’s Craton lies in Canada ... Cratons didn’t get to be most of the age of the Earth by buckling to every washed-up former oceanic plate that comes along.

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping ... But as a result of being the most ancient pieces of Earth’s lithosphere (containing the crust and uppermost mantle ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles (201 km) depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central ...

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