Jdailey1991
Sage
The Rocky Mountains on Great Lakes Earth have a different road from ours. If we use it on our map, we’d see the Rockies starting in the Arctic coast of the Northwest Territories and zigzagging across the Alberta-Saskatchewan border before sharply detouring through the westernmost thirds of North and South Dakota and through the Nebraska Panhandle. After northwestern Nebraska, the mountains drop down to southeastern Colorado, northwestern Oklahoma and western Texas before meandering to what we’d recognize as the Pecos River that separates Texas from Mexico.
While our Rockies stand no taller than 14,440 feet above sea level, the tallest peak in a Great Lakes Rockies is measured to be 14,505 feet. Not only that, they aged differently as well. Back home, our Rockies formed between 80 and 55 million years ago through the Laramide Orogeny, the subduction of the North American and Pacific Plates at a shallow angle. Their Rockies first formed 120 million years ago as the result of a collision between eastern and western North America. They stopped becoming active shortly before the dinosaur extinction. Even so, the rate of decay in Great Lakes Earth is significantly smaller than back home, for the main rocks are schist, granite and gneiss, tough rocks with small vulnerabilities.
With these changes, will the Midwest today still be prairie? Will the changes affect the danger zone called Tornado Alley in any way?
While our Rockies stand no taller than 14,440 feet above sea level, the tallest peak in a Great Lakes Rockies is measured to be 14,505 feet. Not only that, they aged differently as well. Back home, our Rockies formed between 80 and 55 million years ago through the Laramide Orogeny, the subduction of the North American and Pacific Plates at a shallow angle. Their Rockies first formed 120 million years ago as the result of a collision between eastern and western North America. They stopped becoming active shortly before the dinosaur extinction. Even so, the rate of decay in Great Lakes Earth is significantly smaller than back home, for the main rocks are schist, granite and gneiss, tough rocks with small vulnerabilities.
With these changes, will the Midwest today still be prairie? Will the changes affect the danger zone called Tornado Alley in any way?