Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Giant camels used to roam what’s now Los Angeles. If you visit the city’s La Brea asphalt seeps, you can see their bones, ...

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 ...

As well as having long-lasting consequences for Native Americans to this day, the bison population of North America was ...

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 ...

Apparently, autumn at Niagara Falls isn’t just dramatic—it’s gone viral. A new analysis of seasonal Google searches across the U.S. and Canada just crowned the upstate New York icon the continent’s ...