TIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range

7 months ago by Averagejoe to c/todayilearned

The Central Pangean Mountains were a great mountain chain in the middle part of the supercontinent Pangaea that stretches across the continent from northeast to southwest during the Carboniferous, Permian Triassic periods.
inlandempire 7 points 7 months ago

Damn where did Iceland go

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deadbeef79000 7 points 7 months ago

Iceland is volcanic and consequently incredibly young compared to pangea.

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Averagejoe 4 points 7 months ago

That is the 1million dollar question 

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apfelwoiSchoppen 4 points 7 months ago

Where did you go before you were born?

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HiddenLayer555 4 points 7 months ago

Also IIRC a lot of the pacific coast mountains around the world are from the same volcanic activities caused by the Ring of Fire

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BananaPeal 3 points 7 months ago

The most amazing part of this is that Florida is shown to be a part of the Appalachian Mountains. Meanwhile, its highest point is only 345 feet (105 meters), which is the lowest state high point of all 50 states.

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Averagejoe 4 points 7 months ago

That is wild

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EntheoNaut 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, mind blowing.

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Averagejoe 1 point 7 months ago

Diversity of animals too

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altphoto 1 point 7 months ago

Way back when in the brontosauria two very fat brontosauree started fighting each other. They went up the mountain for privacy and one was on top of the other and then thr other way around. What a fight! What passion. They broke back the mountain. That's why real brontosaurus are found in water. LOL I know their name isn't brontosaurus! One was Uuuhoohuuumpfffshhhthuuuu. The other went by George, but we can't corrpbolate that encabrulator.

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