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, an ...

Ray Suarez talks with author Anthony DePalma about his new book "Here: A Biography of the New American Continent," about the North American neighbors of the United States. Well, there's no biography ...

Around a billion years ago, a geological event occurred in North America that could have completely changed the continent as people know it. This event could have split the North American continent in ...

The continent of North America is not a single, thick, rigid slab, but is instead more similar to a layer cake, with a section of 3-billion-year-old rock sitting atop much newer material, a new study ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s mantle ...

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Secretary of State, and Archbishop Leonardi Sandri, Substitute for General Affairs, presented to Pope John Paul II the first copy of the 2004 edition of the “Annuario ...