A hot blob of rock beneath New Hampshire may be helping the Appalachian Mountains stand so tall. The rock mass is slowly on ...

A new study shows a giant blob of hot rock beneath New Hampshire is helping the Appalachian Mountains stand tall despite ...

A massive, heated rock formation, dubbed the 'hot blob' or Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), is situated 200 km beneath the ...

Deep heat beneath the Appalachian Mountains may be linked to an ancient rift with Greenland, helping explain why the range is ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

The ‘hot blob’ is officially called Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), and lies 125 feet deep underground and extends 220 ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

"Heat at the base of a continent can weaken and remove part of its dense root, making the continent lighter and more buoyant, ...

Scientists reveal a superhot geological 'blob' moving toward New York City, impacting the Appalachian Mountains' elevation.

A mysterious blob of heat is slowly rising beneath New England, and it may rewrite what we thought we knew about the ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the ...