Practice globe tossing games with blow-up globes and ask pupils to identify continents and point to North America when they catch it. Older children could identify countries within this continent ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

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 ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

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

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's west coast, with the former sliding beneath the latter and recycling its material into the mantle.