xkcd #3221: Landscape Features
Title text:
‘Well, there’s speculation that it’s due to a mantle hotspot.’ --a geologist who’s trying to cover up the fact that they didn’t hear your question
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3221/


What’s going on in the Adirondack mountain range in upstate New York?
Tried looking it up, it’s so new that nobody who knows has made a post about it yet. Slow day at work so I’ll try and crack the case via wikipedia or whatever
Edit: alright so the spot really is freaky
Basically the mountains from that entire region formed around the same time from the same glacial event but these ones just randomly popped up much later and we really aren’t precisely sure why
Hmmmmmm