An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the ...

With these geological processes, continents broke apart. Occasionally, we find remnants of ancient continents. Scientists have been searching for one of these, called Argoland, for decades.

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

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

is thought to have lived in ancient Iberia roughly one million years before Homo Sapiens inhabited the European continent. Researchers reached that conclusion after running copious tests on Pink ...