“The east coast of North America was once as wild as the West, with massive mountains rising between colliding tectonic plates, volcanoes belching lava and giant faults slicing the crust.

That’s because millions of years ago, eastern North America was part of Gondwana and Pangaea, the supercontinentsthat formed as Earth’s tectonic plates collided, split apart, and then crashed together again before rifting and drifting toward the spots where they’re located today. Though North America’s east coast is relatively quiet now, clues to these ancient tectonic mash-ups remain buried deep underground.

A new look at one of these clues reveals that a weird magnetic signal near Florida shows the peninsula stuck to North America’s heel like a piece of old tape about 300 million years ago, when the central and southern Appalachian mountains were built. [In Images: How North America Grew as a Continent]

The rocks beneath Florida suggest the peninsula originally wasn’t part of North America. Rather, it’s a fragment of either Africa or South America, sutured onto the southeastern United States near an unusual feature called the Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly, researchers say.

The Brunswick Magnetic Anomaly is a geological feature that snakes from Alabama across Georgia, and offshore to North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Anomalies in Earth’s magnetic field are caused by structures such as faults, and by the varying magnetic intensities of different rock types. These slight differences in rock magnetism can be measured and mapped to find hidden geologic structures….”

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Catastrophism, Cosmology, Space

By Preston
Preston has been deeply passionate about Ancient History, the unexplained and alternative world-views throughout his entire life. This eventually led to his doing Anthropology and Science and Technology studies in University, which provided a solid ground for the theoretical aspect of Science and paradigms. Aside from research into the various subjects with Genesis Quest, he is very much interested in 'why' people think they do - or why a certain paradigm has more precedence over another.

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