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

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

Earth’s continents ... that once made up a large portion of Panthalassa – the single giant ocean that coincided with the existence of Pangea during the Jurassic. North America started riding ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

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

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.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent ... Geologists can "observe developments in close-to-real-time by tracking ...