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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • metostopholes@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range, because it is older than the continents moving apart.

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    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Atlantic Ocean is younger than the Appalachian Mountains.

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    • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And apparently the Scandinavian Mountains are also a part of the same mountain range. Cool!

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    • mecfs@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TIL

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My favorite geological fact about Scotland is the super obvious fault line that slashes straight through it. The Great Glen.

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  • xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I do regard them with terror, but this isn’t the reason why.

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    • flicker@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ominous banjo

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      • nick@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lol’d

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    • sulgoth@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is it the deer? I’ve heard they’re sketchy round there.

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      • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The deer ticks will fuck you up if you don’t check for them.

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  • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This sound like the opening of some eldritch horror novel.

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    • StraySojourner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s unironically a bunch of Appalachian cosmic horror stuff out there. In fact iirc Savage Worlds has a setting for it called Holler and Monte Cook games published a ttrpg for the Old Gods of Appalachia podcast.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If I hadn’t burned myself out on Pseudopod, Welcome to Nightvale, The Black Tapes, and Limetown, I’d be a bigger fan.

        But my friends swear up and down by Old Gods. Solid writing and a good creepy blend of the mundane and surreal.

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    • Dippy@beehaw.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well if you know anything about Appalachian lore

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The resting place of cthulhu’s rotten carcass

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  • Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Most of the Appalachians is now located within the eastern part of the United States as runoff. Imagine how long it took for huge mountains to erode down and wash outwards into the ocean that distance.

    And the Appalachians are still young compared to a few other mountain areas around the world.

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    • niktemadur@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Australia and South Africa giving me the willies.

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      • steelyDansSteamedHam@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yup. Makhanjwa range in the north west of SA is three times as old as the Appalachians at 3.5 billion years. Days were only twelve hours long back then….

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    • psud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How old is the Australian Great Dividing Range (which has been worn down quite low)

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  • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.

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    • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sharks are older than Saturn’s rings.

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  • NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT’S the scary part.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t they be mountainbillies?

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    • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The hills have bones

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    • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Banjo intensifies.

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  • user1234@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Keith Richards built the Appalachian mountains.

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  • doingthestuff@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’ll kick your ass too. Source: hiked hundreds of miles therein

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Am I the only one who the image is not loading for?

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      the appalachian mountains are older than saturn’s rings. the appalachian mountains are older than dinosaurs. the appalachian mountains are older than trees. the appalachian mountains are literally older than BONES. the appalachian mountains should be regarded with pure terror.

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  • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is one of those “Sharks are older than the North Star” things that’s going to live in my head rent free forever.

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  • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that basically the plot of a season in the adventure zone?

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    • Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s a Cypher System RPG called Old Gods of Appalachia that’s pretty neat too.

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      • janus2@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        also a horror podcast

        Old Gods of Appalachia

        antennapod.org/deeplink/subscribe/?url=https%3A%2…

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      • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also thematically related is The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher, which itself is a reinterpretation of The White Ones by Arthur Machen (written in the late 1890s). Appalachia has been creeping people out for a long time!

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      • StraySojourner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        As I mentioned in another comment, but elaborating further here, there’s a Savage World’s setting that revolves around eldritch horror and rampant corporate industry called Holler.

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  • Heartwotalk@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To expand on this, being older than bones is why you can’t find animal fossils in the Appalachian mountains.

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    • booly@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is that just for vertebrates? Seems that exoskeletons should still be fair game, right?

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      • Heartwotalk@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You are correct. I had a brain fart. There are shells and the like, but you won’t come across the next big T-Rex find.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Seems like North America has always had a thing for conservatism.

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  • KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How does one pronounce Appalachian?

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Depends where you’re from lol.

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    • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The closer you get, the more it sounds like “App-uh-latch-uh”

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    • AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      App uh latch e en

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      • KillerTofu@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not App uh Lay shin?

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      • rbesfe@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ve also heard apple-late-chin

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    • KaiReeve@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apple asian

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll stick with Ah-pah-lah-shee-an

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    • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      al-paca-i-en

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  • PugJesus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TAKE ME HOME

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  • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought the Rockies were older

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    • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah the rockies were made by continental drift. Kind of. It’s complicated.

      youtu.be/I9Xk1O17dzg?si=Tnmrz0nIVYAK8Ofg

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    • HoChiMint@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Rockies are actually relatively recent, 55M to 80M years old. The Appalachians are much older and part of the reason they aren’t anywhere near as big as (for example) the Rockies, is because they have been eroded for so much longer. That said, they are still definitely not the oldest mountain range. It looks like the Makhonjwa Mountains win that one.

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      • propter_hog@hexbear.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s sick as fuck, thank you for that link

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