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TIL The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range (vividmaps.com)

submitted 2 days ago by cm0002@libretechni.ca to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 3 points 2 days ago

Still pretty remarkable, just that they were so much bigger before. The wild thing is learning that most of the land east of them to the coast is sediment from their erosion. It makes sense once you think about it, but imagine the amount of time to do that.