Appalachian Trail: Greenland

[Chris]

I am waiting for the North Pole route to open myself.

However this pretty amazing.

http://www.iatnl.ca/index...9/26/2009-Greenland-Trek/

[Chris]

I just found another article on the same site. http://www.iatnl.ca/index...8/26/Greenland-Joins-IAT/

There is a reference in there to continue the IAT into western Europe.

[Bahen]

When Dick Anderson, the founder of the IAT, came down to the AHTS Conference last year he mentioned that they were talking with people in Scotland about continuing the trail there.  The idea being this would be that pieces of the Appalachians have been spreading apart through continental drift.

[Chris]

The Anto Atlas Mountains of Morrocco in North Africa were also formed by the same processes that formed the Appalachians, seperated by continental drift. Is there any geological basis that the mountains of Scotland were formed by the same process? Because I don't thonk they were?

[Bahen]

The Anto Atlas Mountains of Morrocco in North Africa were also formed by the same processes that formed the Appalachians, seperated by continental drift. Is there any geological basis that the mountains of Scotland were formed by the same process? Because I don't thonk they were?

If I am remembering correctly, what today is known as the Appalachian Mountains was formed through five different orogenies.  The different periods of mountain have created different "spurs" of the range in places such as North Africa, Scotland, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.  Erosion and continental drift have since separated these different ranges.