Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called "cratonic dripping." This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate, an ...

Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," about the North American neighbors of the United States. Well, there's no biography ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s mantle ...