North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

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

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

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

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

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Ramsay, F.E.S., F.G.S., recently visited this country, and while here made some notes upon the geology of the Canadas, and the north-eastern ... that the whole of America south of the lakes ...

Field experience is essential to geoscience education. This course will include a minimum of two weeks of intensive field work including note taking, mapping, analysis of geologic history and ...

A map showing seismic speed in Earth’s crust at 125 miles depth across the continental U.S. and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes) has a ...