Cees Van Staal on the Origin of the Appalachians
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In the podcast, Cees Van Staal tells us about the Paleozoic tectonic events that led to the formation of the Appalachians. The events are closely related to those involved in the Caledonian orogeny and the mountains it created. However, the Appalachians that we see today are not the remnants of the Paleozoic mountains, but much more recent processes associated with the magmatism that accompanied the rifting of the Atlantic as well as the effects of the ice ages as recent as about 10,000 years ago.
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