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'Moving 12 miles per million years': A superhot giant 'blob' moving closer to New York city, say scientists
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Massive Hot Blob Beneath US Is Slowly Moving Toward New York City, Study Finds
Scientists have said that a massive, "hot blob" of rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains is slowly moving toward New York ...
'Hot Blob' Heading For New York Following Ancient Greenland Rift
Technically known as the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), the 350-kilometer- (217-mile-) wide blob of hot rock hasn't been ...
Massive, mysterious ‘hot blob’ beneath Eastern US is moving toward New York, puzzling scientists
Officially dubbed the Northern Appalachian Anomaly (NAA), this subterranean slimeball sits 125 feet deep underground and ...
Weirdly Hot Rocks in New England Traced to 80-Million-Year-Old Greenland Rift
Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...
Beneath America, a Large Buried Heat Blob Is Moving
A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to sink into the hot, soft rock below, like molasses dripping into honey.
Blue whales are going eerily silent—and scientists say it’s a warning sign
A six-year study off California’s coast shows how marine heat waves and noise pollution are silencing the ocean’s largest ...
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A Hidden Blob Beneath Africa Is Fueling Volcanoes—and It Could Split ...
“Our research suggests that a giant hot blob of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa, it is driving the plates apart and propping up the Africa continent so it’s ...
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Hot Blobs In Earth’s Mantle From Moon-Forming Impact ... - IFLScience
Hot Blobs In Earth’s Mantle From Moon-Forming Impact Possibly Started Plate Tectonics It’s hard to explain how else subduction events could have started so early.