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

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

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." ...

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 ...

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.

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...