Talk:3221: Landscape Features

F1rst P0st!!! R128 (talk) 17:27, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

First Times 82.13.184.33 09:14, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

The ???? in New York is probably the Adirondack Mountains:

About 10 million years ago, the region began to be uplifted. It has been lifted about 7,000 feet (2,000 m) and is continuing at about 0.08 inches (2 mm) per year, which is greater than the rate of denudation. The cause of the uplift is unknown, but geologists theorize that it is caused by a hot spot in the Earth's crust.[18] A recent study has revealed a column of seismically slow materials about 30 to 50 miles (50 to 80 km) deep beneath the Adirondack Mountains,[20] which was interpreted to be the upwelling asthenosphere contributing to the uplift of the mountains.

Zzzt (talk) 17:58, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Geology being the cause of geological events is a tautology.--Henke37 (talk) 18:26, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

It's only a tautology where the plates are separating. It's a "compressology" where they're colliding, etc. ;) 81.179.199.253 21:36, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

conterguous* 137.25.230.78 20:34, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

I wonder if we should have a category for Isogloss. (Whether isoseme or some other variation.) I added in the two others 'of this basic illustrative nature' that I remembered off the top of my head, but I think there might be more. 81.179.199.253 21:33, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

This page should be in Category: Comics with color 50.47.110.240 21:05, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

I feel like comic 3141 is worth a mention here, but I'm not sure where to put it. MrCandela (talk) 22:49, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

Added to the Adirondock row. Fephisto (talk) 00:12, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

This explanation, and working on it, absolutely taught me more about US geology than I learned in school. 2603:800C:1200:596A:7154:D390:7A60:3197 08:29, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

I headered-up the table, to be consistent with the list-subheader. Also rearranged (and bulleted) the list of states (and district, but there are less than 51 lines, so obviously still some 'unstated' (NPI!) ones, not yet sure which) alphabetically, as that's going to be the main referencing reason here (aded "sortable" to the table - mostly for on-demand label-sorting, not so useful in the other columns, but not bothered making them unsortable again). Moved the reference to the other similar comics to the end of the unsubheadered Explanation section (post title-text blurb), as with usual narrative order in such cases.
You are welcome to (re-)redo, naturally. The by-state list could easily be a table, too, for resorting purposes (though not much benefit if it's already sorted by its one and only useful 'key' value), or it could be remade as a 'tick grid'/confusion-matrix of 51 'states' against <however many> labels (if you think something like that that helps). ...but probably too much work for too little gain, I think, having already gone through some of these ideas myself, but YMMV. 82.132.237.49 12:45, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Currently missing are: Alabama; Georgia; Louisiana; Mississippi; North Carolina; South Carolina; Tennessee. From which I deduce that someone has an irrational dislike of states ending in 'a' and states with an excess of double letters. 82.13.184.33 14:57, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

wow, there are a lot of geology comics in the past year or so. I think Randall has a new interest R128 (talk) 13:11, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Hotspots create almost-constantly active volcanos, so they are a very bad go-to explanation. Shirluban 147.161.153.84 14:09, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Sections to explain

I'm not a geologist, so I don't know how to answer these questions, but I will leave this template here to eventually be copied into the article:

Location	Description	Explanation
Adirondack Mountains	???
Most of northern U.S. border	Glaciers
Appalachian Mountains	Continents colliding
Mississippi river basin	Rivers
SE U.S.	Farming
Southern Florida	Ongoing disputes between limestone and water
Southern Missouri/Northern Arkansas	...geology
Central column of U.S.	Farming
Central Idaho/Yellowstone	A supervolcano
Eastern Washington	A megaflood
West Coast	...a plate tectonic speedrun.
SW	Water and time
Northern Alaska	...geology
Aleutians	Volcanoes
Hawaiian island chain	Volcanoes

Fephisto (talk) 18:59, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

...uh, why don't I just copy it into the article blank for now, actually?Fephisto (talk) 19:00, 18 March 2026 (UTC)

New here, and don't know the formatting, but the table is currently missing the Cascade and Sierra Nevada "Vocanoes" region, though it's pretty self-explanatory. 136.56.99.85 (talk) 21:29, 18 March 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Got it. Fephisto (talk) 00:12, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Also missing the “…geology” section surrounding the supervolcano. 146.115.160.214 (talk) 21:58, 18 March 2026 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Got it.Fephisto (talk) 00:11, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

'Glacier National Park' in Southeast Alaska is properly 'Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve'