A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

Conventional helium production comes with enormous carbon emissions, so scientists are looking for alternatives in places ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

researchers created a detailed map of what lies beneath the central United States. What they saw were large, drip-like structures extending from the base of the craton into the mantle transition ...

Buxton Resources has secured the first of three exploration licences covering its intriguing Royale copper-gold project in WA ...

A map of the North American craton—outlined in black—as revealed by seismic velocity measurements. A map of the North American craton—outlined in black—as revealed by seismic velocity ...

US Geological Survey geologists estimated large potential for—and large uncertainty about—the amount of hydrogen accumulations in the world.

Royale is a belt-scale opportunity that covers 671km2 (once all licences are awarded) in the Paterson Orogen along the West Australian Craton margin ... surveys to map elevated conductivity ...