A Giant Hot Blob is Heading Toward New York City—and It May Be Capable of Dividing Continents
created: Aug. 12, 2025, 4 p.m. | updated: Aug. 18, 2025, 11:10 a.m.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Experts believe a giant mass of hot rock known as the North Atlantic Anomaly (NAA) is heading toward New York City.
According to the theory, the continents we know today were once connected as one big “supercontinent” called Pangea.
A new study published in the journal Geology suggests that a giant, hot blob split Greenland from North America 80 million years ago—and now, it’s heading toward New York.
Per the team’s calculations, the mass is steadily heading toward New York City—but Yankees fans, fear not!
When continents divide, hot, dense rock bubbles off the base of tectonic plates, and the “waves” move across continents’ lower surfaces.
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