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

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

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

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils. The find sheds more light on the diversity of two-legged theropod dinosaurs ...

The oldest parts of Earth's continents are called cratons, and underneath, they are rooted to the mantle... | Earth And The ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

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

Restoration images of Huadanosaurus sinensis (left) and Sinosauropteryx lingyuanensis (right). Illustration: Courtesy of the ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have found that parts of the North American continent are slowly “dripping” ...

But sometimes cratons undergo changes that can affect their stability or that remove entire rock layers. For example, the North China Craton lost its deepest root layer millions of years ago. What ...

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