I do regard them with terror, but this isn’t the reason why.
Time Terror
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
sulgoth@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is it the deer? I’ve heard they’re sketchy round there.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
The deer ticks will fuck you up if you don’t check for them.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 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.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
This sound like the opening of some eldritch horror novel.
StraySojourner@lemmy.world 11 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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 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.
Dippy@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Well if you know anything about Appalachian lore
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
The resting place of cthulhu’s rotten carcass
Rhaedas@fedia.io 11 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.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Australia and South Africa giving me the willies.
steelyDansSteamedHam@lemmy.world 11 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….
psud@aussie.zone 11 months ago
How old is the Australian Great Dividing Range (which has been worn down quite low)
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.
booly@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sharks are older than Saturn’s rings.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT’S the scary part.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wouldn’t they be mountainbillies?
booly@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
The hills have bones
BreadOven@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Banjo intensifies.
user1234@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Keith Richards built the Appalachian mountains.
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’ll kick your ass too. Source: hiked hundreds of miles therein
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
Am I the only one who the image is not loading for?
Zachariah@lemmy.world 11 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.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 11 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.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Isn’t that basically the plot of a season in the adventure zone?
Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
There’s a Cypher System RPG called Old Gods of Appalachia that’s pretty neat too.
janus2@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 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!
StraySojourner@lemmy.world 11 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.
Heartwotalk@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
To expand on this, being older than bones is why you can’t find animal fossils in the Appalachian mountains.
booly@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Is that just for vertebrates? Seems that exoskeletons should still be fair game, right?
Heartwotalk@lemmynsfw.com 11 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.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Seems like North America has always had a thing for conservatism.
KillerTofu@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How does one pronounce Appalachian?
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Depends where you’re from lol.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The closer you get, the more it sounds like “App-uh-latch-uh”
AsherahTheEnd@lemmy.world 11 months ago
App uh latch e en
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’ve also heard apple-late-chin
KaiReeve@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Apple asian
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
I’ll stick with Ah-pah-lah-shee-an
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 11 months ago
al-paca-i-en
PugJesus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TAKE ME HOME
propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 months ago
I thought the Rockies were older
LordGimp@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Nah the rockies were made by continental drift. Kind of. It’s complicated.
HoChiMint@hexbear.net 11 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.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 months ago
That’s sick as fuck, thank you for that link
metostopholes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range, because it is older than the continents moving apart.
ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The Atlantic Ocean is younger than the Appalachian Mountains.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
And apparently the Scandinavian Mountains are also a part of the same mountain range. Cool!
mecfs@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TIL
Maggoty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My favorite geological fact about Scotland is the super obvious fault line that slashes straight through it. The Great Glen.