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

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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?