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A Giant Hot Blob is Heading Toward New York City—and It May Be Capable of Dividing Continents
The North Atlantic Anomaly, a 350-kilometer-wide molten rock mass, moves 20 kilometers per million years beneath the Appalachian Mountains, influencing continental shifts, researchers said.
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A massive mass of hot rock deep beneath New England is slowly moving toward New York, new research suggests.
A Giant Hot Blob Is Moving Toward New York, Tied to Forces That Once Tore Continents Apart
A recently published study in Geology by Thomas M. Gernon, Sascha Brune, Thea K. Hincks, and Derek Keir provides new insight into an enormous mantle anomaly—a zone of unusually hot and low-density rock—deep beneath New England. This feature, known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), measures approximately 400 kilometers across and lies about 200 kilometers below the Earth’s surface, within the asthenosphere, the partially molten layer of …
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