The Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands are the same mountain range, because it is older than the continents moving apart.

I do regard them with terror, but this isn't the reason why.

Because North America and Africa were once geographically connected, the Appalachians formed part of the same mountain chain as the Little Atlas in Morocco. This mountain range, known as the Central Pangean Mountains, extended into Scotland, before the Mesozoic Era opening of the Iapetus Ocean, from the North America/Europe collision (See Caledonian orogeny)

By the end of the Mesozoic Era, the Appalachian Mountains had been eroded to an almost flat plain.[27] It was not until the region was uplifted during the Cenozoic Era that the distinctive topography of the present formed.

This sound like the opening of some eldritch horror novel.

Most of the Appalachians is now located within the eastern part of the United States as runoff. Imagine how long it took for huge mountains to erode down and wash outwards into the ocean that distance.

And the Appalachians are still young compared to a few other mountain areas around the world.

In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.

They'll kick your ass too. Source: hiked hundreds of miles therein

Keith Richards built the Appalachian mountains.

The Appalachian mountains are full of hillbillies. THAT'S the scary part.

Am I the only one who the image is not loading for?

Edit: It's working now.

This is one of those "Sharks are older than the North Star" things that's going to live in my head rent free forever.

Isn't that basically the plot of a season in the adventure zone?

To expand on this, being older than bones is why you can't find animal fossils in the Appalachian mountains.

Seems like North America has always had a thing for conservatism.

How does one pronounce Appalachian?

TAKE ME HOME, COUNTRY ROAD