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One pretty cool geological fun fact is that the Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range, once connected as the Central Pangean Mountains

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the thicc husband & father

@lukeisamazing

time to bring this one back pic.twitter.com/81YDqAkDSR

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Ian Chambers 💙💛

@chambersi57

That’s why there are stretches of the International Appalachian Trail walking route in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

James J. Haeck

@jamesjhaeck

i want a fantasy plot whose big twist hinges on continental drift

like---an underground dwarven megacity split in four that used to all be one city but cracked apart over the eons and kept developing in its own way

Patrick W. Watson

@PatrickW

Mind blown.

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Rae ❤️‍🔥

@FiatLuxGenesis

Cool. My ancestors were Scottish Highlanders. Then, moved to Appalachians.

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Topher Belknap

@Green_Fret

It seems really counter-intuitive that a continent split ON a mountain range.

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Bod

@Bodrules

The suture line - marking the point where the Iapetus Ocean closed and England and Scotland docked, can be seen at the surface - on the Isle of Man and Shannon Estuary in Co. Limerick across to Clogherhead in Co. Louth in Ireland.

Donna Ladd said what she said.😘

@DonnerKay

Oh wow

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Miranda Armstrong🧡💚💙

@Mirandastronghk

Learning about continental drift was by far the most jaw-dropping moment in my education. Wondrous planet.

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Jєss - 🍉 expansion is non-negotiable

@jsuprenant1

A more accurate map. The Atlantic Plain in the U.S. is mostly made of material eroded from the old mountain range. pic.twitter.com/ioFDmEjTIG

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Mack O'Quinn

@MOQuinn62

1/I don't know where the author got their info that the Appalachian Mountains extended to present day Florida, but it's possible I guess. These mountains formed 480 million years ago and at their max, rose as high as present day Rocky Mountains or the Alps.

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Sourav Jaiswal

@SJaiswal1024

And were as high as Himalayas, before erosion took over.

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Gavin Crowley

@crowley_gavin

There are no "British Isles". It's an unacceptable political claim.

Matthew Wharton

@CGCGreenkeeper

This explains so much about why this lad from the Appalachian foothills feels at home in the Scottish Highlands! ♥️ golfcourseindustry.com/article/home-h…

Andy Creed

@cyberistia

That is pretty cool

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Steven Carleton

@StevenCarleton9

So, I guess the mid-atlantic ridge is pushing the americas and europe/africa apart. Its the largest geographic feature on the planet and spans from the N. to the S. pole. The plates move at the same rate fingernails grow. In the Pacific, there is plate seduction and earthquakes

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Cllr Brant 🇺🇦

@PaulDBrant

Florida was once a mountain range? This is a properly wow tweet by the way - i had no idea

Garry Golden

@garrygolden

The same Mountain range...!

𝙎𝙀𝙈𝙏𝙀𝙓 𝙁𝘼𝙍𝙈𝙃𝘼𝙉𝘿 🤠🪴💥🌚

@SemtexFarmhand

fake

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Chris Watson

@Jack_Hinson214

Imagine how much bigger the Pacific Ocean would have been back then..

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two5poundnotes

@two5poundnotes

The only mountain in Florida is Space Mountain in Disney World.

Dr. Chris Ince

@Chris_Ince

Finally! I’m Northern, I can finally band with Scotland and petition to leave the rest of this island behind.

United Central Pangean Mountain States, here we come.

Alex Penland - ANDRION comes out in August 🏳‍🌈

@AlexPenname

I always like to tell people I’m close to home, just a couple hundred million years away.

(Grew up in DC, living in Scotland.)

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André Chaisson

@ATChaisson

There is one really small island on the west coast of Newfoundland, named Red Island because the soil is exactly the same type you find on Prince Edward Island.

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lowlander

@lowlander26

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Lucy R. Fisher

@richmondie

I once met a geologist in Connemara who was thrilled to have found a bit of Newfoundland.

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Charlie Smith

@charlie_smit_

Are they also not older than the rings of Saturn?

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Brian

@BStizzl

One could speculate that the range was formed by the underlying tectonic plates forcefully driving together before they ultimately separated

flashman

@flashman

This is also why northern Britain, Norway and Appalachia have large amounts of coal. Big equatorial mountain make big green wet swamps.

Annie Otey

@oteypress

This is a very interesting fact indeed !

Dr. Camn

@DamnitCamn

🤯

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Steven Carleton

@StevenCarleton9

Awesome. So they have matching geology? Can't believe how plate tectonics has transformed the earth's surface. See Pangea cruise lines...

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Jack Pryar

@JPryar

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Kate Allure

@KateAllure

I accept that they were once all connected, but debate their original name—Central Pangean Mountains. Were aliens here to name them because it sure wasn’t Homi Sapiens back then.

Chris Johnston

@chrisj_1982

Bet the A9 was murder back then as well

Its MR Coffee to YOU

@ItsMrCoffeetoY1

What a great account to follow....

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NKR

@NKR_II

No.

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Silkgirl101

@silkgirl101

Wow. Missed that before. The earth may not be alive as defined by life but it is alive.

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Susan Richter

@SusanRichter7

Very cool geological fact my husband reminded me of this August when we toured Scotland.

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Queen Méabh

@_QueenMeabh

And all of Ireland.

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Gregorian Calendar = Artificial Time

@vajrarinpoche

Atlantis

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austin payne

@austinpayneut

#thread @SaveToNotion

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yonnette ward

@YYonnette

I like facts like these 😊.

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Tedd

@BurtRigg

Cool

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Jim Overton

@JimOverton13

Being full of useless trivia myself I find your tweets very informative

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Andrew Steel 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@AndrewSteel_

There is a subterranean trench which encompasses the the earth twice, what caused this. No amount of radial shrinkage could cause it. No force acting from within the earth could cause it. something has twisted the planet.

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🛠 j_z_1234

@j_z_1234

FIRST TIME to know where caledonian mountains are. is it likely the name sake for the caledonian orogenic movement?

フィル・ヴォルグ🇯🇵

@NFrOFr2snPHzCKG

「スコットランド高地、アパラチア山脈、アトラス山脈は、かつて中央パンゲア山脈としてつながっていた同じ山脈であるという、地質学的にとても興味深い事実がある。」

大昔は超大陸でひとつの大陸になっていたらしいですね🧐

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Love My Avalanche 💕💕 (can I pet that dog?)🏒🥅

@goavs925

😮😮😮😮😮😮

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Diane Bartfield

@DBartfield

Kmkmom.. M. Lmokkoo

@polosporting

it’s true i was there

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Doug Taylor

@WindWanders

Very true.

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Stellar Experiences

@BubblyAstronut

That is incredibly cool

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tonidekohlanta

@tonidekohlanta

Very interesting but the map is close to @TerribleMaps territories…

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William Belcher 🌠

@EdB_Ohio

They were as tall as the Himalayas and at the equator. Imagine how much rain they wrung out of the atmosphere.

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Julie B 🐝

@bluemoonjules

And everywhere in England and Wales that has mountains...

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Not Kyle 🌹

@tweetohkyle

I thought Florida is porous limestone?

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Deborah Knott

@DeborahKnott14

Fascinating. I wonder how the different peoples got on together in that one big landmass? I'm guessing quite peaceably with no borders or isolating bits of surrounding seas. Are we all still drifting apart or will we join up again?

Stefan Etienne

@StefanEtienne

That’s a fascinating fact.

AVToiBhoy68

@av_toi

🧐🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Francesca Pellas

@francescapellas

Queste sono le cose che mi fanno andare fuori di testa 🧡🧡🧡

rinnegatto

@rinnegatto

Il Folk e il Blues, cioè la base di gran parte della musica che ascoltiamo, sono nati dentro quella faglia.

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Sean Clark

@DrClarkIPresume

@thebitterlemon

Michael Griffin

@IsawInfo38

Pangaea's cool and all with those ancestral continents all lumped up together - but if somebody made a globe of that it seems like half of it'd be nothing but ocean
Which is geophysically dissonant

ELENA CICCOZZI

@ELENACICCOZZI

#geology #history #geography , hence culture . the Central Pangean Mountains , via @Rainmaker1973

Jordan

@JordanMConnolly

🤯

David Lann

@ShoeKat

^..^

jonestheboat

@jonestheboat

I knew the Scotland-Greenland connection, which was 🤯 enough.

This is next level 🤯

Doesnt Addup

@doesnt_addup

Cool.

ꦌꦢꦺꦴꦄꦂꦱ꧀꧇꧔꧖꧇

@edoars46

Does it make England the center of the world.

Bellara M.Sofiane

@SofianeBellara

I love science ♥️🙏

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Rev Blue Choice

@deaconseps

pic.twitter.com/uUHxTns6sA

Salih Elmaagacli

@ElmaagacliSalih

cool... and enlightening...

Emma T

@graapples

Look at us, bang in the middle

Manu

@BzhClair

Richard Burton is the one explaining it the best

youtube.com/watch?v=NFnra5…

Swagdragon

@bruhikyouregay

Yo I love this fact. That’s why the Appalachians are shorter than the Rockies, cuz they’re so much older

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David Ward

@DavidWa40486343

Yep that's about the size of Great Britain, but the colonies or as the locals like to call it the north america's, look way to big ;-) Thank's for the info.

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Jamman

@spatulameister

My view of the Appalachian Mts. Cool stuff. pic.twitter.com/o8GEUMzXL2

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@tinhatranch

@thetinhatranch

That explains kilts and banjos.

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Dutch Schultz

@Dutch1968

pic.twitter.com/kEK7nLUIzR

David Lann

@ShoeKat

While people express concern that the sun will run out of hydrogen and envelop the earth the plates may cause more damage than climate change. ^..^

Hugh McGowan

@htmcg

I didn't really follow the news in those days, and I've never been good at geography, so I didn't notice.
:-)

bradley martin

@brmindustries

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AEStuart

@AEStuart2

I didn’t know this! Fascinating!

Kasra Mah

@HumbleZone247

Just learned something!

Lena Lebedeva-Hooft

@LenaSwan

Cool visual

Sheri Cardo

@SheriCardo

So cool.

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Lorna Jackson 🧙

@LornaAJackson

@mischimosh

Kari ⚕ ⵡⴰⵔⵉⴰⵖⵍ ☄Dibiasky 🍱 Sen 🐉 線🎏

@AHungryBrain

Vivant aux pieds des contreforts de l'Atlas🇲🇦 une bonne partie de l'an, je l'ai bien 🤩 & saoulé avec ça mes gosses tout le long de notre roadtrip estival en remontant les Appalaches des 🇺🇲au🇨🇦 🤣 Ils n'en pouvaient plus... #MamanRelou #MamanAutiste #MamanEstAutisteEtElleDéchire

蝉丸

@semimaruclimb

かつてはひとつの山塊だったが、大陸移動により離ればなれになった山脈

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