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.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

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

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

They have elaborated on the geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, but a more seminal contribution is their study on the North China Craton, the large block of the Earth’s crust forming ...

Not only can wind and water erode them from above, but the deepest layers can be removed from below, as is thought to have happened to the North China Craton during the age of dinosaurs.

For example, the North China Craton lost its deepest root layer millions of years ago. What makes the discovery of cratonic dripping special, said the researchers, is that it's happening right now.

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

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils.