Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called "cratonic dripping." This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate, an ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s mantle ...

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Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the reason ...

Beneath the quiet plains and bustling cities of the U.S. and Canada, an ancient process is slowly playing out. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, pieces of North America's oldest ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...