Transcription of Birth of the Mountains - USGS
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Birth of the Mountains - USGS
As the Nation s principal , the Department of the Interiorhas responsibility for most of our nationally owned public lands and natural and cultural resources. This includes fostering sound use of our land and waterresources; protecting our fish, wildlife, and biological diversity; preserving theenvironmental and cultural values of our national parks and historical places;and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. TheDepartment assesses our energy and mineral resources and works to ensure thattheir development is in the best interests of all our people by encouraging stewardship and citizen par-ticipation in their care.
Canada and the eastern United States. These rocks are remnants of an ancient supercontinent. From Rankin and others, 1989. The Supercontinent Breaks Up About 750 million years ago, the supercontinent began to thin and pull apart like warm taffy because of expansion of the continental crust (fig. 6). Then, about 540 million years
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