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

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 ...

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 ...

Although it has been subducted—pulled under the North American Plate—over the past 200 million years, parts of it still exist deep in the mantle. Geodynamic models suggest this sunken plate ...