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 ...

New England's White Mountains are a subrange of the northern Appalachian Mountains. - Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot ...

For university researchers, one of our country’s oldest geographical landmarks still provides insights into the past. In a study funded by the National Science Foundation that was conducted 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, ...