Geologic Wonder

Location and History

• Mountain chain-Eastern North America
• 480 mil years ago

Formation

• belts of folded and faulted sedimentary rock and volcanic rocks
• plate collision

Uniformitarianism

• layers of sediment deposited on top of each other
• thousands of years of deposition created mountain

Constructive and Destructive

• constructive-created mountain range
• destructive-destroyed forests when it was forming