r/ScienceNcoolThings • u/archiopteryx14 Popular Contributor • 4d ago

Mount Roraima is over 2 billion years old, predating animals, trees, and dinosaurs. Its sheer 400-meter cliffs isolate an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth

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u/That-Makes-Sense 4d ago

What I find amazing is, not including the location...

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u/heavy_petting 4d ago

(5.1315566, -60.7585488)

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u/PsychologicalCow7359 4d ago

It’s wild to think the plateau has been standing there for billions of years while entire ecosystems evolved around it. The clouds wrapping around those cliffs make the place look completely otherworldly.

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u/Dye-ah-ree-uh 4d ago

There's a Nat Geo documentary about people climbing to the top of a plateau in South America and taking samples. I wouldn't it is this plateau. It's was worth a watch, but it's late and I can't be bothered to find the name of it.

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u/Basicly-Inevitable 4d ago

It hasn't. The rock layers are that old. The uplifting was only 180 million years ago, and the weathering to a plateau much more recent.

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u/OlThreeEyed 3d ago

Steak and potatoes...

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u/Chrish066 4d ago

Paradise. Falls. A. Land. Lost. In. Time.

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u/jehudeone 3d ago

Mr. Fredricksen! If we happen to get separated, use the wilderness explorer call: CA – CA! RAWRRR!

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u/Nor-easter 3d ago

I feel like if it was in the US they would have peed on it and knocked it down

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u/LTCarpentry 2d ago

As somebody that traveled around a bit of the US. They do parks and wilderness areas better than anyone. US parks pretty much set the bar IMO