Am i tripping or is it weird that all the major continents / subcontinents have a lil buddy island or archipelago to the southeast
@hannah I dunno, I'm pretty desperate to hear a geologist talk about this now you've pointed it out
@thraeryn i wish i knew literally anything about plate tectonics

@hannah seriously

the general concept is easy-peasy, but the specifics? for all I know, I live on the Great Midwestern Tray

@thraeryn @hannah the names of stuff in tectonics and geology are either incredibly boring and complicated or incredibly fucking cool with little in between. If you're in the Midwest you're on the North American Craton which to me is in the latter camp. The "stable cratons" are super thick continental cores. So there ya go
@thraeryn @hannah north America is basically the Craton and then other crap slamming into both sides and pushing up mountains