[HN Gopher] The Scottish Highlands, Appalachians, and the Atlas ...
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       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)
        
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       | 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.
        
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