The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range

Posted by lifeisstillgood 12/18/2025

The Scottish Highlands, the Appalachians, Atlas are the same mountain range(vividmaps.com)

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Ericson2314 12/19/2025|

I'm a little suspicious that they drew the Atlas mountains in the wrong spot.

tengwar2 12/18/2025||

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.

zimpenfish 12/18/2025||

> including the famously flat Lincolnshire fens.

I think they might have gotten flatter in the intervening 200M+ years.

IAmBroom 12/19/2025||

So, you expected a map that omits all adjoining land to the mountains?

Most people wouldn't object to an article about Kilimanjaro containing a map of where it is in Tanzania, but for reference, here is a map of just the mountain: O.

tengwar2 12/19/2025||

If the map labelled the whole of Tanzania, Kenya, and Malawi as being Kilimanjaro, yes, I would have a problem with that.

brcmthrowaway 12/18/2025||

Where do the himalayas fit in all this?

voxleone 12/18/2025||

The Himalayas formed because the Indian craton moved exceptionally fast northward (all the way from Antarctica) and collided with Eurasia, one of the fastest sustained plate motions known in geological history.

The collision with Asia began around 50–55 Ma and is still ongoing, which is why the Himalayas are still rising today.

turtlesdown11 12/18/2025|||

They're also mountain ranges formed from the collision of plates? Otherwise, nothing, the timelines of the formation of the Himalayas and the Appalachians are hundreds of millions of years apart.

mr_toad 12/19/2025|||

The Himalayan mountains are new kids on the block. The Appalachian ranges pre-date life on land, they pre-date the evolution of vertebrates.

nkrisc 12/18/2025|||

They don’t.

IAmBroom 12/19/2025||

Appalachians:Himalayas::Childhood scar:Pimple.

prennert 12/19/2025||

I would file this under blogspam, given the length of the article, the atrocious oversimplifying, highly compressed map and the number of ads.

If you are interested in the geology of Scotland, there are excellent books available, including "Land of Mountain and Flood: The Geology and Landforms of Scotland". I am sure good books about the Appalachians and the Atlas are available, too.

cranberryturkey 12/18/2025|

check out local hiking trails on ParkLookup

IAmBroom 12/19/2025|

"A Progressive Web App (PWA) for discovering and exploring U.S. National Parks."

So, advertising your side project? Because it is useless for checking out Scottish Highlands trails.