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There’s a hot rock blob under New Hampshire. It could be why the Appalachian Mountains are standing tall
A hot blob of rock beneath New Hampshire may be helping the Appalachian Mountains stand so tall. The rock mass is slowly on ...
ScienceAlert6d
'Hot Blob' Heading For New York Following Ancient Greenland Rift
A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the ...
The Debrief10d
Scientists Propose Origin Story for “Puzzling” Hot Zone Beneath America They’re Calling the North Atlantic Anomaly
Scientists studying a puzzling hot zone beneath America, called the North Atlantic Anomaly, have proposed a mantle wave ...
Eos11d
Three Magmatic Pulses Helped Rifting Transform into Seafloor Spreading
A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...
IFLScience on MSN11d
“Hot Rock” Under Appalachians Traveled From Greenland To US At 20 Kilometers Per Million Years – And Is Still Moving
An area of anomalously hot rocks 200 kilometers (120 miles) beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains could be the product ...
Mirage News12d
U.S. Deep Heat Linked to Ancient Rift With Greenland
Appalachian Mountain range in northeastern USA A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in ...
Hot blob beneath Appalachians formed when Greenland split from North America — and it's heading to New York
A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...
Deep heat beneath US traced to ancient rift with Greenland
A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...
Mirage News12d
Ancient Rift Linked to U.S. Deep Heat with Greenland
A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland and North America ...
EurekAlert!13d
Deep heat beneath the United States traced to ancient rift with Greenland
Large region of unusually hot rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains in teh USA is linked to the splitting of Greenland and ...
AllAfrica14d
Africa: We Detected Deep Pulses Beneath Africa - What We Learned Could Help Us Understand Volcanic Activity
Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years - and they still are. Our new study reveals fresh evidence of rhythmic pulses of ...
VolcanoCafe16d
Erta Ale erupts and produces a giant dike intrusion. Could the caldera collapse? Is there more to come??
On 15 July, a video of an explosive eruption of Erta Ale (Afar Region, Ethiopia) volcano was briefly discussed in the comment section. It was a small ash plume emerging from the summit of the ...