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

The nature of unsaturated zone water flow in karstified carbonates depends on properties in the carbonate aquifer, control drip behaviour, and the extent to which individual drip sites respond to ...

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

Cratonic thinning, a phenomenon geologists think happened hundreds of millions of years ago, appears to be taking place far ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

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

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

More information: Junlin Hua et al, Seismic full-waveform tomography of active cratonic thinning beneath North America consistent with slab-induced dripping, Nature Geoscience (2025). DOI ...