New research shows that North America is slowly sinking into the earth, and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

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

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

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent’s underside is experiencing “cratonic thinning,” where blobs of rock are dripping away due to the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking ...

One of these slabs currently straddles the boundary between the mantle ... The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high ...

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 ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling large parts of North America’s crust into the Earth’s mantle. This process, ...

The slab of rock is applying a downward dragging force on the continent and is "both redirecting the flow of material in the mantle ... part of the North American craton discovery is that the ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of ... about the geologic processes happening in the crust and mantle underlying North America. "Because of the use of this full-waveform method ...