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!
My favorite geological fact about Scotland is the super obvious fault line that slashes straight through it. The Great Glen.
TIL
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
Lol’d
Is it the deer? I’ve heard they’re sketchy round there.
In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.
They’ll kick your ass too. Source: hiked hundreds of miles therein
The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT’S the scary part.
Banjo intensifies.
Wouldn’t they be mountainbillies?
How does one pronounce Appalachian?
I’ll stick with Ah-pah-lah-shee-an
Apple asian
Depends where you’re from lol.
The closer you get, the more it sounds like “App-uh-latch-uh”
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!
TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD
