[HN Gopher] North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists ...
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       North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
        
       Author : jandrewrogers
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2025-04-05 20:24 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | jfengel wrote:
       | Article is dated April 1 but the actual paper is dated March 23.
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       | Sometimes it can be hard to tell when it's outside of your
       | domain.
        
       | lunarcave wrote:
       | > Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North
       | American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock -- and that
       | the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in the Earth's mantle
       | may be the reason why.
       | 
       | Really appreciate the first sentence of the article having a
       | pithy summary of what the whole thing is all about.
        
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