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Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

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

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

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

The Texas Department of Public Safety said it, along with several other government agencies, has been investigating the Tren ...

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 ...