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 ...

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

Seismic waves pass through different geological features at different speeds ... United States and portions of Central America and Canada. The North American craton (outlined in black dashes ...

This computer model, which uses seismic data collected by the EarthScope project, revealed new details about the geologic processes happening in the crust and mantle underlying North America.

“A lot of features that we now know are present in the upper mantle beneath eastern North America, we really just did not know about.” And then scientists got even better optics. Long and ...

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