TIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Averagejoe@lemmy.org to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 8 points 3 months ago

Damn where did Iceland go

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 3 months ago

Iceland is volcanic and consequently incredibly young compared to pangea.

[-] Averagejoe@lemmy.org 5 points 3 months ago

That is the 1million dollar question

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Where did you go before you were born?

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 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

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 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.

[-] Averagejoe@lemmy.org 4 points 3 months ago

That is wild

[-] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, mind blowing.

[-] Averagejoe@lemmy.org 1 points 3 months ago

Diversity of animals too

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