{"id":210370,"date":"2025-04-02T05:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:31:50","slug":"north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"North America is dripping from below, geoscientists discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/north-america-is-dripping-from-below-geoscientists-discover3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock\u2014and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth\u2019s mantle may be the reason why.<\/p>\n<p>A paper published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-025-01671-x\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Geoscience<\/i><\/a> describes the phenomenon, which was discovered at The University of Texas at Austin. It\u2019s the first time that \u201ccratonic thinning\u201d may be captured in action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe made the observation that there could be something beneath the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/craton\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">craton<\/a>,\u201d said the study\u2019s lead author Junlin Hua, who conducted the research during a postdoctoral fellowship at UT\u2019s Jackson School of Geosciences. \u201cLuckily, we also got the new idea about what drives this thinning.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock\u2014and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth\u2019s mantle may be the reason why. A paper published in Nature Geoscience describes the phenomenon, which was discovered at The University of Texas at Austin. It\u2019s the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}