THE student has often to regret that the aboriginal peoples of the American continents left no records which tell us anything concerning their physical history. The convulsions which affected these ...

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 ...

The continent of North America is not a single, thick, rigid slab, but is instead more similar to a layer cake, with a section of 3-billion-year-old rock sitting atop much newer material, a new study ...

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 ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we’re taught that the world is made up of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young ...