North America looked a lot different a billion years ago.

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REB — 6/24/2005 4:25:36 PM (archived)

I think I have mentioned this before. Enchanted Rock, in the Texas Hill Country, is a tiny part of a Batholiths. This Batholiths is the root of an ancient mountain. The mountain was part of the Ouachita mountain range, which stretched across Texas, through Arkansas, and over to the Appalachians. These mountains were formed when continents slammed together to form Pangaea.

The flat Texas coastal plane I live on is the sedimentary remnants of that eroded mountain range.

I find it all very interesting.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Plate Tectonics, but... - ljk - 6/23/2005 5:14:08 PM
- Something that I'd like to see from plate tectonic theory - Gary - 6/24/2005 6:22:30 AM
  - PALEOMAP project - jms - 6/25/2005 2:20:21 PM
    - Nice link - thanks - E.P. Grondine - 6/26/2005 5:40:58 PM
  - Parts of the Grand Canyon were once mountains higher than Everest - ljk - 6/24/2005 1:05:56 PM
    - North America looked a lot different a billion years ago. - REB - 6/24/2005 4:25:36 PM
      - One of the delights of my job... - Nick Hoffman - 6/24/2005 11:35:58 PM
        
        re: What do you think happened here ... and when? - BRFelix - 6/25/2005 4:57:13 AM
        
        re: What do you think happened here ... and when? - Nick Hoffman - 6/25/2005 3:46:25 PM
        
        Independent work without hidden agendas... - Gary - 6/25/2005 7:20:47 PM
        
        re: Well... - BRFelix - 6/25/2005 7:20:41 PM
        
        Okay: Impact Plume - E.P. Grondine - 6/26/2005 3:02:27 PM
        
        re: Heh. Hmmm.... - BRFelix - 6/27/2005 1:09:21 AM
        
        Crack or crock? - Nick Hoffman - 6/27/2005 10:59:34 AM
        
        re: Crack or crock? - BRF - 6/27/2005 4:06:58 PM

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