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A large, hot rock anomaly beneath New Hampshire, called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, may explain the uplift and stability of the Appalachian Mountains and is moving towards New York over the next 15 million years, offering new insights into Earth's deep geological processes.
Researchers have traced the origin of the hot rocks beneath New England's Appalachian Mountains to a rift between North America and Greenland that occurred 80-90 million years ago, supporting a mantle wave theory that explains deep Earth processes and their impact on surface geology.
Scientists have discovered a hot rock anomaly beneath the Appalachian Mountains, called the Northern Appalachian Anomaly, which formed around 80 million years ago and is slowly moving towards New York, potentially influencing the region's geological features and mountain uplift over millions of years.
A hot rock formation beneath the Appalachian Mountains, formed when Greenland separated from North America around 80 million years ago, may have contributed to the mountains' uplift and height, and the anomaly is moving towards New York, influencing regional geology and ice sheet dynamics.
A seventh earthquake in two weeks has been detected in the same western North Carolina mountain town, with the strongest reaching 3.2 magnitude. The Appalachian Mountains are not on an active tectonic plate boundary, but the area still has sporadic earthquakes due to old geologic fault lines. Earthquakes tend to trigger other earthquakes.