3285: Accretionary Arc

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Accretionary Arc
The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.
Title text: The late Triassic rifting was caused by a dinosaur trying to use the control panel to escape a predator, but it was eaten before the continent could fully separate.

Explanation[edit]

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This comic describes Cueball and Ponytail escaping from a mob of angry people. Ponytail remembers the control panel, possibly referencing ,the universal control panel they use it in reverse the split of the North American continent and escape.

The "island arc" refers to the Taconic orogeny, when approximately 550 through 440 million years ago an island chain consisting of modern-day New England and Eastern Canada collided with the rest of modern-day North America, forming parts of the modern Piedmont region of the Appalachian Mountains.

The title text's "late Triassic rifting" refers to the South Georgia rift, where a rift valley formed along the southeastern United States during the late Triassic approximately 215 through 175 million years ago, but failed to separate the continent before the plate tectonics causing the rifting shifted, ending the rift (but leaving the geological history). The title text claims that this was due to a dinosaur attempting to use the control panel in a similar fashion, but the rift ended because it was eaten before completing the task like Cueball and Ponytail did.

See also 2577.

Transcript[edit]

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Cueball:they're right behind us!

Ponytail:it's OK! I have a plan.

[Field of view widens,showing an angry horde of people chasing Cueball and ponytail]

Ponytail:I just gotta access the control panel... Yes! It still works! OK,full reverse!

Control panel:beep beep

[Field of view widens again, showing the continent has been seperated]

Angry mob:No!

Ponytail and Cueball: Hah!


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first?Ninojin3DD (talk) 03:29, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

Made a very basic explanation,how'd I do?Ninojin3DD (talk) 03:40, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

Also made the transcript, was it good? Ninojin3DD (talk) 04:04, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
:⎠ I don't edit much

Ninojin3DD (talk) 03:49, 15 August 2026 (UTC)

You did pretty good. Maybe in the future consider explaining why the island part is relevant to splitting the continent? (Also I'm adding some new lines for formatting reasons)Sarah the Pie(yes, the food) (talk) 03:42, 15 August 2026 (UTC)
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