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 ...

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 ...

Beneath the surface of the United States, the Earth's crust is gradually subsiding, creating a novel geological phenomenon.

Researchers found that a large funnel-shaped zone beneath the Midwest is pulling rocks from across North America toward it horizontally before they sink into the Earth’s mantle. This process is ...

Earth’s continents have regions of very old ... “Luckily, we also got the new idea about what drives this thinning.” More of North America’s Craton lies in Canada than the USA, but the ...

Huge outpourings of magma accompanied the split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago.

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

(InvestigateTV) — Over 50 years have passed since the first Earth Day in 1970 ... In this InvestigateTV+ report, we explore America’s forgotten twister and reveal new potentially life-saving ...