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I think about them that way after reading this tumblr post that has really stuck with me!

An elevation map of the US. The Rockies are huge and the Appalachian/adirondack ranges are so small in comparison
ginger-ale-official
man the Appalachian mountains really aren't shit huh
archosaur-automaton
The Rockies are new, young and virile and fresh from the Laramide orogeny, tall and lanky teenagers on the geological scale.
the Appalachian mountains are old, formed hundreds of millions of years ago before dinosaurs walked the Earth. They are ancients, elders, witnesses to half a billion years of life coming and going.
To be tall is not a virtue. To be small is not a sin. The Appalachians are eroding under the weight of time, slowly shrinking and returning to the Earth from which they sprang.
Appreciate them while they are still here.
beabaseball
I do want to say real quick again about the age of the Appalachians...
They said "before dinosaurs," but we have a cave here that began forming between 450 million to 550 million years ago.
There are no bones in that cave. No fossils.
No nothing.
That's because this cave began forming before bones existed on land, and had only just started to exist in the ocean. Shellfish hadn't evolved yet. Limestone, which forms many caves, was just starting to become a more prevalent rock.
The mountains aren't older than dinosaurs.
They are older than bones.
Source: mapsontheweb
#oh so epic
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What is with that weird elevation map, though? The Sierras are 4 miles above sea level, not 300 miles.

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SHehirsch.bsky.social

“Older than bones” is gonna be rattling around in my brain for the next couple of decades

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RGrogergrow.bsky.social

I love Vermont.

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Mrmholt.bsky.social

Once mightier than the Rockies

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AWoddballpaladin.bsky.social

Reinforces how I was taught about the Sierra Nevadas. They are really just a jagged shard sticking into the sky from plates colliding. Like shrapnel from a car collision.

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Jraoulduke1976.bsky.social

West Virginia is one of my favorite states because it’s nothing but old mountain.

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TGthegeorg.bsky.social

I cried when I went to Scotland. Here were the mountains so close to the Adirondacks that I love, only devoid of trees. A desolate beauty. I wanted to walk around spreading seeds.

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KRrowanauthor.bsky.social

I've seen this one! It sent me down a rabbit hole, staying up one night reading charts of how much taller the tallest Himalaya is than the tallest Alp is than the tallest Rocky etc. Changed how I see the whole world.

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JWjennwong.bsky.social

The Appalachians are real mountains. The Poconos are not.

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