Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

Ever been mesmerized by the swirling colors of Grand Prismatic Spring and wondered what fuels that otherworldly boil? It ...

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

Scientists have now discovered that the roots below the North American continent seem to be dripping rock blobs. The findings have been reported in Nature Geoscience. "We made the observation that ...

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 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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The underside of the North American continent is experiencing "cratonic thinning," where blobs of rock are dripping away. This phenomenon is linked to the ...