Languages: English. 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 ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent ... model for North America. This computer model utilized ...

but their presence appears to be impacting the entire continent. The dripping area looks like a large funnel, with rocks from across North America being pulled toward it horizontally before ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock ... that created a new full-waveform seismic tomographic model for North America using ...