Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

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

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

Geodynamic models say deep mantle flow from the long-subducted Farallon slab is likely behind the massive underground “drips” ...

And yet Connecticut—along with much of the rest of eastern North America—holds important clues about Earth’s history. This region, which geologists call the eastern North American margin ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

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 ...