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May 3, 2024 · The backcountry frontier of colonial Virginia reached westward from the Blue Ridge Mountains to the farthest extent of Virginia settlement in the eighteenth century. By royal charter, the extreme western boundaries of Virginia at this time extended to the Pacific Ocean, but the terms “backcountry” or “back settlements” specifically ...
May 21, 2024 · The Algernourne oak is a roughly 500 year-old live oak that was named for the original fort built by Captain John Smith and the Virginia Company in 1609 on what is now Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va. Nearby, an even older tree in Fort Monroe called the Algernourne Oak is estimated to be approximately 500 years old.
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May 1, 2024 · The Appalachian Mountains were shaped by tectonic forces pushing upwards due to the collision of tectonic plates within the Earth’s crust. This resulted in the formation of the mountain range. Subsequent processes, such as ice and water erosion, further shaped the peaks.
4 days ago · The Rocky Mountains were formed during a geological event called the Laramide orogeny, which occurred approximately 80-55 million years ago. This event involved the collision of several tectonic plates, causing the rocks to uplift and form the mountain range.
May 18, 2024 · Approximately 300 million years ago, the North American and African continental plates collided, resulting in the folding of the Earth’s crust and the formation of this mountain range. Known as the Alleghenian orogeny, this event occurred during the Paleozoic Era.
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May 10, 2024 · Walter Alvarez is an American geologist and expert on plate tectonics and mountain formation, best known for the so-called asteroid theory—put forward by Alvarez and his father, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, in the 1980s—which states that the impact of an asteroid on Earth may have.
May 12, 2024 · NORFOLK, Va. — For the first time since 2003, a G5 geomagnetic storm hit Earth, bringing an array of colors to the sky visible in much of the northern U.S. — including parts of Virginia.
