As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

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

Yet even those most stable regions aren’t completely permanent. 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 ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

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

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

This is not the first time scientists have found evidence of cratons changing. A study published at the end of 2024 found ...

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.

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 ...