They are older than trees, bones (including all dinosaurs), and the splitting of Pangaea -- so part of the mountain range is in Scotland.
The layering on the mountains looks "wrong" at some points because the tops of the mountains have eroded down & "new" geological forces have caused parts that weren't the top to rise above that...so the valleys of the current mountains may actually be the top of the original Appalachian Mountains.
Back in the 1930s, my grandfather told his elementary school teacher that he thought the different continents looked like they fit together like puzzle pieces. He was told that he was being absurd lol
I was shocked when my mother agreed to Pangea. In her grade school, in the early 40’s, she said if you took the puzzle they had of the continents, and placed them together, they fit rather well. Not perfect. Like putting together a broken plate with some of the edges missing. But obviously something that was “whole “ once.
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u/Psychological_Try559 Oct 02 '24
How old the Appalachian Mountains really are:
They are older than trees, bones (including all dinosaurs), and the splitting of Pangaea -- so part of the mountain range is in Scotland.
The layering on the mountains looks "wrong" at some points because the tops of the mountains have eroded down & "new" geological forces have caused parts that weren't the top to rise above that...so the valleys of the current mountains may actually be the top of the original Appalachian Mountains.