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.
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.<p>> 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.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Suture" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Suture</a>
The ancient forests and swamps that bordered this mountain range form the coal deposits which range from the US Appalachian region to Wales and Scotland, to northern Spain, through France, Germany, and Silesia. These would, some time later, become the regions which lead the steam-powered Industrial Revolution. I'd first learned this fact some years ago reading Matthias Weissenbacher's <i>Sources of Power</i>.<p><a href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/sources-of-power-how-energy-forges-human-history/oclc/416715097" rel="nofollow">https://www.worldcat.org/title/sources-of-power-how-energy-f...</a><p>Other than China, Australia, and South Africa, this represents a huge portion of the planet's coal reserves.
Title is a bit misleading. The "little" Atlas near the Atlantic coast isn't usually considered part of the Atlas mountains and is usually called the anti-atlas. The "real" Atlas range is much (much) younger.
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.<p><a href="http://www.kencroswell.com/SouthAmericanAppalachians.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.kencroswell.com/SouthAmericanAppalachians.html</a>
It is odd/amazing that the Ouachita mountains are included in the "Central Pangean Mountains" given how far west they are.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouachita_Mountains" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouachita_Mountains</a>
See also Tom Scott's "The 400,000,000-Year Link Between Scotland and Canada"<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKwRou6HUw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAKwRou6HUw</a>
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.
See also Map Men (with Jay Foreman), who cover the Scottish-English border in an entertaining manner: <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqZYsckBwI" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9DqZYsckBwI</a>
When you allow your gaze to traverse the whole of time then you can come up with some proper wankery.<p>As soon as you use the term Scottish with regards Permian ...<p>I'm out.
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.