http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/geology/anim1.html
SCT (signifiying Scotland) is in the middle of the top map and is below the equator. The second map (below) is from a later paleogeologic era when Scotland has moved nearer to the equator. I'm not sure I want to be as hot as that, but in its drift northwards this country should have stopped further south than it did!
These two maps are from this site:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/globaltext.html
The Scandinavian, Scottish, Appalachian and Moroccan mountains once formed part of a single chain which joined together to close the proto-Atlantic 400 million years ago before being split apart after another couple of hundred million years by the Atlantic we know today.
Above is a view of the High Atlas mountains in Morocco which I visited on holiday a couple of years ago. I've not been to the hilly part of Scandanavia or the Appalachians, but I imagine those are just as different from the Grampians as the picture above.And the point of this is?
Because I live in a country, some of whose citizens yesterday voted for:
- ID cards
- Foreign controlled weapons of mass destruction next to our largest city
- Scottish banking jobs to go to a competing capitalist capital
- Continued illegal wars that devastate women and children and destroy their rights, education and health
And too many other abhorrent policies that adversely affect our society (with the notable exception of Equalities legislation). I am tempted to say that remaining attached to Scandinavia and the Appalachians would have been preferable to EWNI, (the political entity, not the subjects of these countries).
It may take longer than we’d dared to hope over the last 18 months, but tectonic shift can still happen. Obviously I’d prefer to unhitch us at the Border and tow the whole place back to warmer climes while we get on with our lives building a fairer and more just society.
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