• uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Small? The Appalachians today are the resting skeleton of a mountain range so tall and enduring that the mud and sand that washed off them piled miles high and formed the Catskill mountains. The Appalachians were so mighty that their garbage formed mountains

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        1 year ago

        Completely unrelated. North and south america wern’t attached when the appalachians were tall. The Andes are formed by an ocean plate (the Nazca plate) dragging as it is sucked under south america. They are tall, and still growing taller.

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      1 year ago

      Dang I didn’t even notice that logical inconsistency until you pointed it out. It should say “The mountains aren’t just older than dinosaurs.”

      Of course you’re getting downvoted to hell because everyone either didn’t slow down to read it more carefully or can’t understand sarcasm.