This is the large portion of why I am fascinated with rockhounding new england. http://geology.teacherfriendlyguide.org/index.php/geologic-history/exotic-terranes …
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There are hunks of the Appalacians (the eroded, uplifted roots of the Trans-Pangaen Range) in Morocco, the USA, Scotland, and Norway. Pretty cool stuff.
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trail just got a helluva lot harder
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Didja read Vinge's "Marooned in Realtime?" Takes place 50 million years in the future. They do a short bit showing how the continents have moved in that time, Australia bumping into Indonesia and so on.
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There's been something like 50k cumulative feet of erosion of them, as well.
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The Ur-Appalachians are right up there with the Zanclean Deluge on my time-machine priority list. Of course, priority becomes a rather more interesting concept once you have a time machine…
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this was a fun video that attempted to recreate the topography of pangea, he highlighted this plus a couple other old mountain ranges that exist on separate continents todayhttps://youtu.be/VKq0pr4rbRs
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The funniest part though is how those mountains are Borderer magnets. Magic dirt indeed… hillbilly magic dirt but hey…
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No wonder so many Scottish settled in North Carolina and the Appalachians. It didn't just look like home; it was home. How freaking cool! What a neat detail.
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