u/slatchaw

Another feather to add to Baltimore's cap?
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Another feather to add to Baltimore's cap?

I just found a really interesting article which talks about a fairly recent scientific discovery and Baltimore sits right on top of it! It's called the Piedmont Resistor and it's basically a huge chunk of Pangaea.

When the supercontinent of Pangaea started to tear apart along what is now the east coast, magma flooded up through the crust and buried over a thousand mile strip of land under a 100 mile thick slab of volcanic rock. Some ended up under the newly forming Atlantic ocean, but apparently we're sitting on a large slab of that 200 million year old chunk of a lost continent!

Yeah, maybe it's not the Ravens, but it's pretty cool!

https://www.abovethenormnews.com/2026/05/15/lost-continent-buried-beneath-united-states/

There's a little more technical article here:

https://www.science.org/content/article/deep-earth-map-reveals-lost-u-s-continent

u/Sad_grandma1501 — 1 day ago