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

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

A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

Give pupils an outline map of the continent and ask them ... with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to North America when they catch it. Older children could identify ...

But don't worry, the continent isn't about to collapse. These are incredibly slow geological processes, happening over ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

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