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Hot blob beneath Appalachians formed when Greenland split from North America — and it's heading to New York

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 ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Brown researchers investigate birth of Appalachian mountains

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 ...
YDR

Mountains and meteorites: How the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay were formed

The Susquehanna River river drops 1,191 feet during its journey from Cooperstown, New York, to the Chesapeake Bay. It has seen many changes in the landscape through which it flows over the past 325 ...
Science Friday

The Rare, Native Species Haunting The Appalachian Mountains

It’s the Saturday before Halloween in Asheville, North Carolina, and an elegant chestnut brown snail wanders into a local downtown pub. James Lendemer is dressed as a Mesodon altivagus, commonly known ...