[HN Gopher] The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas ... ___________________________________________________________________ The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas are the same mountain range Author : kdamica Score : 53 points Date : 2022-08-06 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (vividmaps.com) (TXT) w3m dump (vividmaps.com) | mrlonglong wrote: | Ouch, there's an error in the article. Ouachita are not part of | the same range, as that's inland. A poster on the site already | pointed that out. | macintux wrote: | I have a strong recollection that part of the Appalachians are | stuck in South America, but I'm not finding much information | online. Here's one very old article discussing some research into | it. | | http://www.kencroswell.com/SouthAmericanAppalachians.html | politelemon wrote: | Shouldn't the line in the UK be further north, closer to the | Iapetus Suture? IIRC that's the collision of northern and | southern parts of Great Britain, and the geological differences | translated to modern cultural differences, and consequentially | the Scottish-English border is roughly close to it too. The | wikipedia page also mentions the Caledonian orogeny. | | > The Caledonian orogeny united the northern and southern | portions of present-day Great Britain. The Iapetus Suture runs | from the Solway Firth to Lindisfarne. The Anglo-Scottish border | runs near and roughly parallel to the suture. | | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Suture | pyinstallwoes wrote: | Kinda interesting in consideration of Plato's Myth of Atlantis. | Atlas mountains, Atlantic Ocean... mud and all that. Maybe | Atlantis was America or Cuba :P. | labster wrote: | Atlantis is obviously Aztlan. | irrational wrote: | Except, they eroded away long before there were any people. | leishman wrote: | Very cool given that Appalachian settlers were largely Scottish | highlanders. | irrational wrote: | Just moving to the other side of the mountain range. | Tsiklon wrote: | From a human perspective, that settlers from one part of the | range found a home in another part of the same range is | interesting - the heavy Irish and Scottish settlement in | Appalachia, taking language and music with them. | hprotagonist wrote: | and they are _ooooold_. Older-than-trees old. | h2odragon wrote: | and separated for much of that time. at some point the unique | life experience of each side of the range renders them | individual; it might be more proper to say they're descendants | of the single original range. | | On the other hand if we could convince them to get back | together the shipping costs to Europe would _plummet_ and that | would be good for the economy. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-06 23:00 UTC)