alt Hacker NewsThe Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range
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This explains the Scotch-Irish settling in Appalachia. It felt like home, but without the overbearing Brits nearby.
According to this study from 2005 [1] the Appalachians are eroding 6 meters per 1 million years while the rivers are incising 30-100 meters per same time period. So they're technically still becoming more rugged.
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250326213947/https://www.geoti...
I visited Scotland last year. They bring this up a lot on tours. Some of the distilleries also bought land in the Appalachian region to grow trees to make future whiskey casks.
I'm finding it difficult to believe that map relates to the title. It's not showing just the Scottish Highlands (roughly speaking the north-west half of Scotland), but the whole of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, plus about half of England, including the famously flat Lincolnshire fens.
Didn't know about the Atlas, but I knew northern Scotland and Nova Scotia shared a lot of geology.
atlas remain very high though. so what's different there that they're not eroded?
The Scottish Highlands are also significant to contemporary understanding of geology.
check out local hiking trails on ParkLookup
And if you want to hike it, you've got the International Appalachian Trail... https://iat-sia.org/the-trail/