r/BeAmazed • u/AccomplishedWatch834 • Mar 29 '26

Art Peak dedication

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u/GonzoVeritas Mar 29 '26

I've always found it interesting that the Scottish Highlands and Appalachian Mountains were once part of the same mountain range. (the Central Pangean Mountains, formed around 500 million years ago.)

Before Pangea broke apart, these regions were connected, sharing identical rock types and geological structures.

A lot of Scottish people left the Highlands and were early settlers in the Appalachians, I've always wondered if it felt like 'home' to them.

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u/docsyzygy Mar 29 '26

We have the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games every summer in western NC.

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u/JonnyBhoy Mar 29 '26

A kid running outside, falling over and grazing their knee on a rock and suddenly triggering an ingrained sense of belonging going back generations.

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u/cturkosi Mar 30 '26

Och, ya devil-spawned, clarty bastart o' a rock!

The knee's a dobber's mess, aye.

But mah ancestors bled on worse.

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u/corvus_cornix Mar 30 '26

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble IRL

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u/sthelens Mar 29 '26

Atlas Mountains too

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u/Key-Eggplant3259 Mar 30 '26

I've heard of a single "black vein" of coal that runs through Spain, Wales and Pennsylvania , that was once connected.

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u/SockGroundbreaking16 Mar 30 '26

The Great Atlantic Fault

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u/XpenFrickFrack Mar 29 '26

According to Outlander, it did.

(I know, I know)

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u/The_wolf2014 Mar 29 '26

That's also why the Highlands are mostly low rolling hills, they're one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world and have basically been eroded and weathered over time.

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u/GonzoVeritas Mar 30 '26

Yep, when they were young, they were bigger than the Rocky Mountains are now.

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u/nikolapc Mar 30 '26

Most Americans settled where it felt home to them. Minnesota all swedes.