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

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

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

A map produced by the authors ofa new study ... This was an oceanic plate that stretched between the Pacific and North American plates some 100 million years ago, when the dinosaurs were at ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate ... 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 ...

To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American Plate, which is moving southeast. Los Angeles, located on the Pacific plate, is now 340 ...

Cratons are the most ancient, stable pieces of tectonic plates, but even these geological formations can change over time. A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, where the Eurasian and North American Plates are moving apart ... as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue ...