The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range, because it is older than the continents moving apart.
The Atlantic Ocean is younger than the Appalachian Mountains.
And apparently the Scandinavian Mountains are also a part of the same mountain range. Cool!
TIL
My favorite geological fact about Scotland is the super obvious fault line that slashes straight through it. The Great Glen.
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Because North America and Africa were once geographically connected, the Appalachians formed part of the same mountain chain as the Little Atlas in Morocco. This mountain range, known as the Central Pangean Mountains, extended into Scotland, before the Mesozoic Era opening of the Iapetus Ocean, from the North America/Europe collision (See Caledonian orogeny)
By the end of the Mesozoic Era, the Appalachian Mountains had been eroded to an almost flat plain.[27] It was not until the region was uplifted during the Cenozoic Era that the distinctive topography of the present formed.
I do regard them with terror, but this isn’t the reason why.
ominous banjo
Is it the deer? I’ve heard they’re sketchy round there.
In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.
Sharks are older than Saturn’s rings.
Keith Richards built the Appalachian mountains.
They’ll kick your ass too. Source: hiked hundreds of miles therein
The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT’S the scary part.
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The hills have bones
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Wouldn’t they be mountainbillies?
This is one of those “Sharks are older than the North Star” things that’s going to live in my head rent free forever.
To expand on this, being older than bones is why you can’t find animal fossils in the Appalachian mountains.
Is that just for vertebrates? Seems that exoskeletons should still be fair game, right?
You are correct. I had a brain fart. There are shells and the like, but you won’t come across the next big T-Rex find.
TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD
How does one pronounce Appalachian?
The closer you get, the more it sounds like “App-uh-latch-uh”
Depends where you’re from lol.
App uh latch e en
Alternatively can be pronounced app uh latch in
Edit: been told I’m wrong
Not App uh Lay shin?
From Western PA and this is the pronunciation I grew up with (but all others were also accepted)
Yeah, Pittsburgh here, I totally say lay-shun.
It’s been said the Pittsburgh accent is one of the least attractive so maybe don’t go mimicking our diction.
I dunno, the way I typed it is how the robots in Fallout 76 pronounce it haha. I could very well be wrong.
You cheeky bastard!
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