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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

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This comic is a map of the United States, explaining some of the most significant geologic/human activity in each region. It claims that, in each area, there is one major mechanism (plate tectonics, erosion, volcanism, etc.) which is responsible for the majority of interesting formations and features.

The title text plays off the fact that a large part of geology concerned with activity in the mantle, so explaining that there is speculation that something is "due to a mantle hotspot" is not giving much information. Saying this would let a distracted geologist buy for time while responding to a missed question. The area of the map in upstate New York marked with question marks is the Adirondack Mountains, which are theorized to have been caused by uplift from such a mantle hotspot.

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

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This is a test. PoolloverNathan^{[stalk the blue seas]} 20:48, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

A foreign student asked me to help fight against his math teacher. That was unusual. He was in that class for just a couple of weeks. The teacher's phone number was sent to me. The student asked me to spam-call the teacher. 172.71.155.55 22:58, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

here i'm just messing around in html, ignore this

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interesting way of writing quotations xd

hmmm this one of putting "<p>" in a line break will come in handy for when i want it to start at the same place than the first line

Please beware that <p> on mediawiki also disables automatic paragraph breaks, so you need a closing </p> or you'll break automatic paragraph formatting for the rest of the page. Zmatt (talk) 22:06, 31 July 2024 (UTC)

edit: da hek did that "</div>" come from An user who has no account yet (talk) 14:14, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

hi uh its hard to get here. is this a reference to undocumented feature??? hmm... this is interesting.
108.162.241.216 02:05, 23 November 2023 (UTC)

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