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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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This comic is a map of the United States, purporting to explain some of the most significant elements of the landscape in each region. For each area it names one major geological or human mechanism (plate tectonics, erosion, farming, etc.) which it claims is responsible for the majority of interesting formations and features.
  
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This comic is a map of the United States, explaining some of the most significant geologic/human activity in each region. It claims that, in each area, there is one major mechanism (plate tectonics, erosion, volcanism, etc.) which is responsible for the majority of interesting formations and features.
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Many of these causes are summarized in a single word answer, which is overly-simplistic when trying to explain a complex landscape. A few phrases are longer, but still don't actually explain much, and some areas are just labeled "geology", which is distinctly lacking in explanatory power.  
  
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The title text plays off the fact that a large part of geology is concerned with activity in the mantle, so explaining some geologic feature by saying "there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot" does not give much information. Saying this would let a distracted geologist buy time while responding to a missed question. Many of Earth's seemingly out-of-place features (e.g., {{w|Hawaii hotspot}}, {{w|Iceland}}, the {{w|Snake River Plain}} in Idaho, etc.) form from such mantle hotspots. Thus, it's an easy go-to explanation for many of the geological features people are often most curious about.
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The title text plays off the fact that a large part of geology is concerned with activity in the mantle, so explaining some geologic feature by saying "there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot" does not give much information. The suggestion is that this would let a distracted geologist buy time while responding to a missed question. Many of Earth's seemingly out-of-place features (e.g., {{w|Hawaii hotspot}}, {{w|Iceland}}, the {{w|Snake River Plain}} in Idaho, etc.) form from such mantle hotspots, so it's an easy go-to explanation for many of the geological features people are often most curious about.
  
 
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| Appalachian Mountains
 
| Appalachian Mountains
 
| continents colliding
 
| continents colliding
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| {{w|Geology of the Appalachians|The Appalachian Mountains formed roughly 480 to 300 million years ago}} through a series of continent-continent collisions, culminating in the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea. The primary collision involved ancestral North America (Laurentia) crashing into Gondwana (Africa/South America), resulting in a Himalayan-scale mountain range.
 
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| Near Mississippi & Ohio Rivers
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| Mississippi and Ohio River Basins
 
| rivers
 
| rivers
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|  
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| The {{w|Mississippi River}}'s geology has a complex, 70 million year history involving massive sediment deposition, glacial activity, and tectonic shifting. Formed mostly by melting glaciers ~12,000 years ago, it drains a vast, shifting basin, depositing millions of tons of sediment in a massive delta and creating a vast, shifting alluvial plain. The {{w|Ohio_River#Geology|Ohio River's geology}} is similar.
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Southeastern U.S.
 
| Southeastern U.S.
 
| farming
 
| farming
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|  
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| Landscape changes from {{w|cotton production in the United States}}, due to the presence of the {{w|Black Belt (geological formation)}}.
 
|-
 
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| Southern Florida
 
| Southern Florida
 
| ongoing disputes between limestone and water
 
| ongoing disputes between limestone and water
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| {{w|Karst}} topography
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| Florida is a vast {{w|karst}} landscape formed by the dissolution of underground limestone and dolostone bedrock by acidic rainwater, resulting in a terrain characterized by sinkholes, springs, caverns, and disappearing streams. This soluble bedrock, formed from ancient marine deposits, covers much of the state, directly connecting surface water to the Floridian aquifer system.
 
|-
 
|-
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| Southern Missouri/Northern Arkansas
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| Southern Missouri / Northern Arkansas
 
| geology
 
| geology
 
| The {{w|Ozark Mountains}}, which are composed primarily of ancient limestone and {{w|dolomite}}, form a rugged landscape characterized by hills, caves, and springs. Prolonged erosion of these soluble rocks has produced extensive karst features, including sinkholes and underground rivers.
 
| The {{w|Ozark Mountains}}, which are composed primarily of ancient limestone and {{w|dolomite}}, form a rugged landscape characterized by hills, caves, and springs. Prolonged erosion of these soluble rocks has produced extensive karst features, including sinkholes and underground rivers.
 
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| Central column of U.S.
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| {{w|Great Plains}}
 
| farming
 
| farming
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| This area loosely corresponds to the  Great Plains. The lack of other major events left the terrain relatively level, and areas were historically shaped by either herds of bison or indigenous agriculture, both limiting the growth of forests. "Farming" is likely a reference to the more recent mix of large-scale crop farming (especially staples like wheat and corn) and herding (bison replace by cattle).
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| The lack of other major events left the terrain relatively level, and areas were historically shaped by either herds of bison or indigenous agriculture, both limiting the growth of forests. "Farming" is likely a reference to the more recent mix of large-scale crop farming (especially staples like wheat and corn) and herding (bison replaced by cattle).
 
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| Central Idaho/Yellowstone
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| Central Idaho / Yellowstone
 
| a supervolcano
 
| a supervolcano
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| The {{w|Snake River Plain}} is an area of high-elevation flat plain in the otherwise contigious Rocky Mountains. It was formed by the movement of the contenential plate over the {{w|Yellowstone Hotspot}}.
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| The {{w|Snake River Plain}} is an area of high-elevation flat plain in the otherwise contiguous Rocky Mountains. It was formed by the movement of the continental plate over the {{w|Yellowstone Hotspot}}.
 
|-
 
|-
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| American West surrounding Idaho/Yellowstone
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| American West surrounding Idaho / Yellowstone
 
| geology
 
| geology
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|  
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| [[3162: Heart Mountain]]
 
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|-
 
| Immediately off of West coast up to the Four Corners
 
| Immediately off of West coast up to the Four Corners
 
| volcanoes
 
| volcanoes
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| A combination of various {{w|volcanic field}}s of different origins, including {{w|Cascade Volcanoes}} in the Pacific Northwest, {{w|Albuquerque volcanic field}} in New Mexico, {{w|San Francisco volcanic field}} in Arizona, and {{w|San Juan volcanic field}} in Colorado.
 
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| Eastern Washington
 
| Eastern Washington
 
| megafloods
 
| megafloods
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| Most likely a reference to the {{w|Missoula floods}} and the {{w|Bonneville flood}}, a series of floods caused by glacial ice dam failures causing massive lakes to flood large regions of present-day eastern Washington. These floods actually continued all the way to the Pacific Ocean, altering ht shape of the {{w|Columbia River Gorge}} and flooding much of the {{w|Willamette River}} in western Oregon. The comic may have simplified these to avoid bisecting the adjacent zones along the coast.
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| Most likely a reference to the {{w|Missoula floods}} and the {{w|Bonneville flood}}, a series of floods caused by glacial ice dam failures causing massive lakes to flood large regions of present-day eastern Washington. These floods actually continued all the way to the Pacific Ocean, altering the shape of the {{w|Columbia River Gorge}} and flooding much of the {{w|Willamette River}} in western Oregon. The comic may have simplified these to avoid bisecting the adjacent zones along the coast.
 
|-
 
|-
 
| West Coast
 
| West Coast
 
| a plate tectonic speedrun
 
| a plate tectonic speedrun
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| Most likely a reference to the significant tectonic activity on the western coast of the US, caused by the collisions of the {{w|Juan de Fuca plate}}, {{w|Pacific plate}}, and the {{w|North American plate}}.
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| Most likely a reference to the significant tectonic activity on the western coast of the US, caused by the collisions of the {{w|Juan de Fuca plate}}, {{w|Pacific plate}}, and the {{w|North American plate}}, as part of the {{w|Ring of Fire}}.
 
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|-
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| Desert Southwest
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| Southwest Desert
 
| water and time
 
| water and time
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|  
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| The nearly 40 major sedimentary rock layers exposed in the {{w|geology of the Grand Canyon area}} range in age from about 200 million to nearly 2 billion years old. Uplift of the region started about 75 million years ago during the mountain-building event largely responsible for creating the Rocky Mountains. The opening of the Gulf of California around 6 million years ago enabled a large river to cut its way northeast from the gulf. The new river captured the older drainage to form the ancestral Colorado River, which in turn started to form the Grand Canyon. Wetter climates brought upon by ice ages starting 2 million years ago greatly increased excavation of the Grand Canyon, which was nearly as deep 1.2 million years ago as it is now. 
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Northern Alaska
 
| Northern Alaska
 
| geology
 
| geology
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|  
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| Northern {{w|Geology of Alaska|Alaska geology}} is dominated by the Brooks Range (a major Paleozoic mountain belt) and the Arctic Slope sedimentary basin, containing rich Paleozoic-Mesozoic rock sequences. The region is part of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka Microplate, shaped by Mesozoic tectonic shifts, including the Arctic Ocean opening and the Brooks Range uplift.
 
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| Aleutian Islands
 
| Aleutian Islands
 
| volcanoes
 
| volcanoes
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| The Aleutian Islands are a continuation of the Alaskan {{w|Aleutian Range}}, and form part of the {{w|Ring of Fire}}. Most of the islands in the chain bear signs of being formed by volcanos, and many volcanic cones still exist on the islands today.
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| The Aleutian Islands are a continuation of the Alaskan {{w|Aleutian Range}}, and form part of the {{w|Ring of Fire}}. Most of the islands in the chain bear signs of being formed by volcanoes, and many volcanic cones still exist on the islands today.
 
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| Southeast Alaska
 
| Southeast Alaska
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| Hawaiian island chain
 
| Hawaiian island chain
 
| volcanoes
 
| volcanoes
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| Hawaii, including the {{w|Northwest Hawaiian Islands}}, and seamounts northwest of it were formed by a tectonic plate moving over a hotspot, with volcanoes erupting and forming land as it went. The entire chain can be seen [https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0555574,-176.5939317,4904085m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D here].
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| Hawaii, including the {{w|Northwest Hawaiian Islands}}, and seamounts northwest of it were formed by a tectonic plate moving over a hotspot, with volcanoes erupting and forming land as it went. The entire chain can be seen [https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0555574,-176.5939317,4904085m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDMxNS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D here]. Volcanic fog from the {{w|List of volcanoes in the Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain|three active volcanoes on the Big Island}} can often be seen on neighboring islands.
 
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===Feature of Each State===
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Washington: Mega floods, a plate tectonics speedrun
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Idaho: a super volcano, geology
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Montana: geology, glaciers
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North Dakota: glaciers, farming
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Minnesota: glaciers, farming, rivers
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Wisconsin: glaciers, rivers
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Michigan: glaciers
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New York: glaciers, ???, continents colliding
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Vermont: glaciers
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New Hampshire: glaciers
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Maine: glaciers
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Massachusetts: glaciers
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Oregon: a plate tectonics speedrun, volcanoes, mega floods, a supervolcano, geology
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California: a plate tectonics speedrun, volcanoes, water & time
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Texas: farming, geology, water & time
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Florida: farming, ongoing disputes between limestone & water
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Alaska: geology, glaciers, volcanoes
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Hawaii: volcanoes
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This map with subdivisions follows up on a number of prior (non-[[:Category:Bad Map Projections|cursed]]) maps representing (supposed) geographical splits of some conversational outcome or other, such as [[1407: Worst Hurricane]] and [[2108: Carbonated Beverage Language Map]].
 
This map with subdivisions follows up on a number of prior (non-[[:Category:Bad Map Projections|cursed]]) maps representing (supposed) geographical splits of some conversational outcome or other, such as [[1407: Worst Hurricane]] and [[2108: Carbonated Beverage Language Map]].
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[A small panel showing Cueball pointing toward the left and Ponytail standing to his right overlaps the top of a much larger panel containing a map.]
 
:[A small panel showing Cueball pointing toward the left and Ponytail standing to his right overlaps the top of a much larger panel containing a map.]
 
:Cueball: What's up with this weird landscape?
 
:Cueball: What's up with this weird landscape?
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:... ???
 
:... ???
 
:... ongoing disputes between limestone and water
 
:... ongoing disputes between limestone and water
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:[The label "... glaciers" appears three times in various places in the same contiguous zone that runs from Washington state to Maine. The label "... farming" appears twice, representing two separate zones, one that runs from Montana to Louisiana and the other that runs from New Jersey to Mississippi. The label "... geology" appears twice, representing two separate zones, one that runs from Washington state to Texas and the other being a roughly circular region mostly in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.]
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:[On the main map, the label "... glaciers" appears three times in various places in the same contiguous zone that runs from Washington state to Maine. The label "... farming" appears twice, representing two separate zones, one that runs from Montana to Louisiana and the other that runs from New Jersey to Mississippi. The label "... geology" appears twice on the main map, representing two separate zones, one that runs from Washington state to Texas and the other being a roughly circular region mostly in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.]
 
:[Alaska inset:]
 
:[Alaska inset:]
 
:... geology
 
:... geology
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[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]
 
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[[Category:Geology]]
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[[Category:Volcanoes]]

Revision as of 09:38, 19 March 2026

Landscape Features
'Well, there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot.' --a geologist who's trying to cover up the fact that they didn't hear your question
Title text: 'Well, there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot.' --a geologist who's trying to cover up the fact that they didn't hear your question

    Explanation

    This comic is a map of the United States, purporting to explain some of the most significant elements of the landscape in each region. For each area it names one major geological or human mechanism (plate tectonics, erosion, farming, etc.) which it claims is responsible for the majority of interesting formations and features.

    Many of these causes are summarized in a single word answer, which is overly-simplistic when trying to explain a complex landscape. A few phrases are longer, but still don't actually explain much, and some areas are just labeled "geology", which is distinctly lacking in explanatory power.

    The title text plays off the fact that a large part of geology is concerned with activity in the mantle, so explaining some geologic feature by saying "there's speculation that it's due to a mantle hotspot" does not give much information. The suggestion is that this would let a distracted geologist buy time while responding to a missed question. Many of Earth's seemingly out-of-place features (e.g., Hawaii hotspot, Iceland, the Snake River Plain in Idaho, etc.) form from such mantle hotspots, so it's an easy go-to explanation for many of the geological features people are often most curious about.

    Location Description Explanation
    Adirondack Mountains  ??? The Adirondack Mountains are made of billion-year-old rock but were uplifted relatively recently, within the last 5–10 million years. They’re still rising today despite being far from any plate boundary, forming a dome with no clear tectonic cause, thus the "???" due to an ongoing mystery as to their formation.
    Most of northern conterminous U.S. glaciers During the Last Glacial Period, this area was covered by an ice sheet that left its marks on the landscape, in the form of moraines, eskers, glacial erratics, etc.
    Appalachian Mountains continents colliding The Appalachian Mountains formed roughly 480 to 300 million years ago through a series of continent-continent collisions, culminating in the assembly of the supercontinent Pangaea. The primary collision involved ancestral North America (Laurentia) crashing into Gondwana (Africa/South America), resulting in a Himalayan-scale mountain range.
    Mississippi and Ohio River Basins rivers The Mississippi River's geology has a complex, 70 million year history involving massive sediment deposition, glacial activity, and tectonic shifting. Formed mostly by melting glaciers ~12,000 years ago, it drains a vast, shifting basin, depositing millions of tons of sediment in a massive delta and creating a vast, shifting alluvial plain. The Ohio River's geology is similar.
    Southeastern U.S. farming Landscape changes from cotton production in the United States, due to the presence of the Black Belt (geological formation).
    Southern Florida ongoing disputes between limestone and water Florida is a vast karst landscape formed by the dissolution of underground limestone and dolostone bedrock by acidic rainwater, resulting in a terrain characterized by sinkholes, springs, caverns, and disappearing streams. This soluble bedrock, formed from ancient marine deposits, covers much of the state, directly connecting surface water to the Floridian aquifer system.
    Southern Missouri / Northern Arkansas geology The Ozark Mountains, which are composed primarily of ancient limestone and dolomite, form a rugged landscape characterized by hills, caves, and springs. Prolonged erosion of these soluble rocks has produced extensive karst features, including sinkholes and underground rivers.
    Great Plains farming The lack of other major events left the terrain relatively level, and areas were historically shaped by either herds of bison or indigenous agriculture, both limiting the growth of forests. "Farming" is likely a reference to the more recent mix of large-scale crop farming (especially staples like wheat and corn) and herding (bison replaced by cattle).
    Central Idaho / Yellowstone a supervolcano The Snake River Plain is an area of high-elevation flat plain in the otherwise contiguous Rocky Mountains. It was formed by the movement of the continental plate over the Yellowstone Hotspot.
    American West surrounding Idaho / Yellowstone geology 3162: Heart Mountain
    Immediately off of West coast up to the Four Corners volcanoes A combination of various volcanic fields of different origins, including Cascade Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest, Albuquerque volcanic field in New Mexico, San Francisco volcanic field in Arizona, and San Juan volcanic field in Colorado.
    Eastern Washington megafloods Most likely a reference to the Missoula floods and the Bonneville flood, a series of floods caused by glacial ice dam failures causing massive lakes to flood large regions of present-day eastern Washington. These floods actually continued all the way to the Pacific Ocean, altering the shape of the Columbia River Gorge and flooding much of the Willamette River in western Oregon. The comic may have simplified these to avoid bisecting the adjacent zones along the coast.
    West Coast a plate tectonic speedrun Most likely a reference to the significant tectonic activity on the western coast of the US, caused by the collisions of the Juan de Fuca plate, Pacific plate, and the North American plate, as part of the Ring of Fire.
    Southwest Desert water and time The nearly 40 major sedimentary rock layers exposed in the geology of the Grand Canyon area range in age from about 200 million to nearly 2 billion years old. Uplift of the region started about 75 million years ago during the mountain-building event largely responsible for creating the Rocky Mountains. The opening of the Gulf of California around 6 million years ago enabled a large river to cut its way northeast from the gulf. The new river captured the older drainage to form the ancestral Colorado River, which in turn started to form the Grand Canyon. Wetter climates brought upon by ice ages starting 2 million years ago greatly increased excavation of the Grand Canyon, which was nearly as deep 1.2 million years ago as it is now.
    Northern Alaska geology Northern Alaska geology is dominated by the Brooks Range (a major Paleozoic mountain belt) and the Arctic Slope sedimentary basin, containing rich Paleozoic-Mesozoic rock sequences. The region is part of the Arctic Alaska–Chukotka Microplate, shaped by Mesozoic tectonic shifts, including the Arctic Ocean opening and the Brooks Range uplift.
    Aleutian Islands volcanoes The Aleutian Islands are a continuation of the Alaskan Aleutian Range, and form part of the Ring of Fire. Most of the islands in the chain bear signs of being formed by volcanoes, and many volcanic cones still exist on the islands today.
    Southeast Alaska glaciers This part of Alaska (including Glacier National Park) and western Canada has many glaciers that are still carving the landscape.
    Hawaiian island chain volcanoes Hawaii, including the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, and seamounts northwest of it were formed by a tectonic plate moving over a hotspot, with volcanoes erupting and forming land as it went. The entire chain can be seen here. Volcanic fog from the three active volcanoes on the Big Island can often be seen on neighboring islands.

    Feature of Each State

    Washington: Mega floods, a plate tectonics speedrun

    Idaho: a super volcano, geology

    Montana: geology, glaciers

    North Dakota: glaciers, farming

    Minnesota: glaciers, farming, rivers

    Wisconsin: glaciers, rivers

    Michigan: glaciers

    New York: glaciers, ???, continents colliding

    Vermont: glaciers

    New Hampshire: glaciers

    Maine: glaciers

    Massachusetts: glaciers

    Oregon: a plate tectonics speedrun, volcanoes, mega floods, a supervolcano, geology


    California: a plate tectonics speedrun, volcanoes, water & time

    Texas: farming, geology, water & time

    Florida: farming, ongoing disputes between limestone & water

    Alaska: geology, glaciers, volcanoes

    Hawaii: volcanoes


    This map with subdivisions follows up on a number of prior (non-cursed) maps representing (supposed) geographical splits of some conversational outcome or other, such as 1407: Worst Hurricane and 2108: Carbonated Beverage Language Map.

    Transcript

    [A small panel showing Cueball pointing toward the left and Ponytail standing to his right overlaps the top of a much larger panel containing a map.]
    Cueball: What's up with this weird landscape?
    Ponytail: Oh, it was caused by ...
    [The larger panel shows a map of the United States, with southern Canada, northern Mexico, and most of Cuba and the Bahamas visible as well. An inset at lower left shows Alaska along with part of northwest Canada, with a smaller inset showing Hawaii. International borders and coastlines are indicated in black, and state borders are indicated in gray. Red lines divide the United States into irregularly shaped zones (the red lines indicating zones do not cross into the neighboring countries, except in the Alaska inset), with each zone being labeled with red text. Each text label begins with "..." to indicate that it is the conclusion of Ponytail's sentence. The following are the labels used:]
    [Main map:]
    ... a plate tectonics speedrun
    ... volcanoes
    ... megafloods
    ... a supervolcano
    ... geology
    ... water and time
    ... glaciers
    ... rivers
    ... continents colliding
    ... ???
    ... ongoing disputes between limestone and water
    [On the main map, the label "... glaciers" appears three times in various places in the same contiguous zone that runs from Washington state to Maine. The label "... farming" appears twice, representing two separate zones, one that runs from Montana to Louisiana and the other that runs from New Jersey to Mississippi. The label "... geology" appears twice on the main map, representing two separate zones, one that runs from Washington state to Texas and the other being a roughly circular region mostly in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.]
    [Alaska inset:]
    ... geology
    ... volcanoes
    ... glaciers
    [Hawaii inset:]
    ... volcanoes

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    Discussion

    F1rst P0st!!! R128 (talk) 17:27, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    First Times 82.13.184.33 09:14, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

    The ???? in New York is probably the Adirondack Mountains:

    About 10 million years ago, the region began to be uplifted. It has been lifted about 7,000 feet (2,000 m) and is continuing at about 0.08 inches (2 mm) per year, which is greater than the rate of denudation. The cause of the uplift is unknown, but geologists theorize that it is caused by a hot spot in the Earth's crust.[18] A recent study has revealed a column of seismically slow materials about 30 to 50 miles (50 to 80 km) deep beneath the Adirondack Mountains,[20] which was interpreted to be the upwelling asthenosphere contributing to the uplift of the mountains.

    Zzzt (talk) 17:58, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    Geology being the cause of geological events is a tautology.--Henke37 (talk) 18:26, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    It's only a tautology where the plates are separating. It's a "compressology" where they're colliding, etc. ;) 81.179.199.253 21:36, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    conterguous* 137.25.230.78 20:34, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    I wonder if we should have a category for Isogloss. (Whether isoseme or some other variation.) I added in the two others 'of this basic illustrative nature' that I remembered off the top of my head, but I think there might be more. 81.179.199.253 21:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    This page should be in Category: Comics with color 50.47.110.240 21:05, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    I feel like comic 3141 is worth a mention here, but I'm not sure where to put it. MrCandela (talk) 22:49, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    Added to the Adirondock row. Fephisto (talk) 00:12, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

    This explanation, and working on it, absolutely taught me more about US geology than I learned in school. 2603:800C:1200:596A:7154:D390:7A60:3197 08:29, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

    Sections to explain

    I'm not a geologist, so I don't know how to answer these questions, but I will leave this template here to eventually be copied into the article:

    Location Description Explanation
    Adirondack Mountains  ???
    Most of northern U.S. border Glaciers
    Appalachian Mountains Continents colliding
    Mississippi river basin Rivers
    SE U.S. Farming
    Southern Florida Ongoing disputes between limestone and water
    Southern Missouri/Northern Arkansas ...geology
    Central column of U.S. Farming
    Central Idaho/Yellowstone A supervolcano
    Eastern Washington A megaflood
    West Coast ...a plate tectonic speedrun.
    SW Water and time
    Northern Alaska ...geology
    Aleutians Volcanoes
    Hawaiian island chain Volcanoes

    Fephisto (talk) 18:59, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    ...uh, why don't I just copy it into the article blank for now, actually?Fephisto (talk) 19:00, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

    New here, and don't know the formatting, but the table is currently missing the Cascade and Sierra Nevada "Vocanoes" region, though it's pretty self-explanatory. 136.56.99.85 (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

    Got it. Fephisto (talk) 00:12, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
    Also missing the “…geology” section surrounding the supervolcano. 146.115.160.214 (talk) 21:58, 18 March 2026 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
    Got it.Fephisto (talk) 00:11, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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