Experts believe a giant mass of hot rock known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA) is heading toward New York City. A new study suggests that the NAA could be responsible for the split between ...

(CNN) — There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, ...

An area of anomalously hot rocks 200 kilometers (120 miles) beneath the northern Appalachian Mountains could be the product of a continental divorce when dinosaurs still ruled, geologists claim. The ...

AbstractTwo competing models exist for the formation of the Pennsylvania salient, a widely studied area of pronounced curvature in the Appalachian mountain belt. The viability of these models can be ...

With a real-life "Hot blob" of rock 125 miles below the Appalachian Mountains moving toward New York City, according to a study, geologist Doug Prose joins "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" to break down the ...

For iconic landscapes such as Grand Canyon or the Appalachian Mountains, geological features are an integral part of their appeal. Yet despite the seeming permanence of cliffs, caves, fossils, and ...

Athens, Ohio (November 16, 2006) -- Geologists have developed a new theory to explain how and when the Appalachian Mountain range was created. Their research redraws the map of the planet from 420 ...

Every other Friday on Morning Edition NHPR’s Sam Evans-Brown tracks down answers to questions about the environment and outdoors for our listeners in a segment we call “Ask Sam.” David from Denver, ...