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

https://vividmaps.com/central-pangean-mountains/

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inlandempire@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 156d (3 replies)

Damn where did Iceland go

deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz · 7 pts · 156d

Iceland is volcanic and consequently incredibly young compared to pangea.

Averagejoe@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 156d

That is the 1million dollar question 

apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 156d

Where did you go before you were born?

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 156d

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

BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 156d (3 replies)

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.

Averagejoe@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 156d (2 replies)

That is wild

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Yeah, mind blowing.

Averagejoe@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 155d

Diversity of animals too

altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 156d

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.