The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...

Therefore, the paper’s authors argued, North America ... North American continents are still in the process of breaking apart, leaving the world with six continents rather than seven. Map ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs ... The affected part of the North American continent is an example of a "craton"—ancient and stable parts of the crust that typically undergo ...

While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting ... both European and North American tectonic plates," said ...

The REAL map of the world ... break-up of the European and North American continents is still ongoing. Scientifically speaking, this would mean North America and Europe could be classed as ...

Why it's incredible: The rift nearly broke North America in half around 1 billion ... tectonic forces pulling what is now the North American continent in opposite directions.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent ... model for North America. This computer model utilized ...

Researchers have discovered that the North American ... America's subsurface utilizing EarthScope seismic data. It ultimately revealed previously unseen geological processes within the ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process providing new information about how continents and landmasses evolve.

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away ... waveform seismic tomographic model for North America using an approach developed by co-author ...