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The Appalachian Mountains, with their ancient peaks and timeworn ridges, are a familiar sight in Eastern North America. But beneath them, deep within the Earth’s crust, a geological anomaly is slowly but surely reshaping the landscape. Recent research has uncovered the presence of a hot blob of rock, buried 125 miles below the surface, that may have played a significant …

A giant blob of abnormally hot rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains formed when Greenland separated from North America around 80 million years ago, new research suggests. Scientists previously thought that this hot zone, known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, was left over after North America broke away from Africa 180 million years ago, but this theory does not stand up …