Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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

The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging technique called "full-waveform inversion." ...

The slab of rock is applying a downward dragging force on the continent and is "both redirecting the flow of material in the ...

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 fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

This computer model utilized seismic data collected by the EarthScope project and revealed fresh details about the geologic processes happening in the crust and mantle underlying North America.

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 ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping ... revealed new details about the geologic processes happening in the crust and mantle underlying North ...

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 ... the mantle. There’ll always be an America ...

A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into the mantle due to the continued influence of the Farallon Plate, which has been subducting under the continent for 200 ...