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

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

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

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in 125-million-year-old fossils.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

They have elaborated on the geological evolution of the Tibetan Plateau, but a more seminal contribution is their study on the North China Craton, the large block of the Earth’s crust forming ...