A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

The groundbreaking discovery was detailed in a study published last year in the journal Gondwana Research by researchers from the University of Derby in England and Sweden's Uppsala University. Read ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse ... The researchers predict the dripping will halt once the tectonic plate remnants sink deeper, thus diminishing their impact on the ...

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Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

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 ...

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