(April 3, 2017 at 7:12 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(April 3, 2017 at 5:12 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Rhonda, I haven't looked in the plate tectonics for the various US mountain ranges. I do know that we have hundreds of feet of limestone here. And limestone is made up of:I can tell that's a picture of a mountainside, but what detail should I be looking for?
So, we're on top of a column of dead sea creatures that took millions of years to form. The critters are/were microscopic and we build buildings out of their remains.
You see this kind of thing all the time:
That's not a mountainside, it's a cut for a highway. Just plain old Missouri hills just like those in the near ground and far distance. The Ozark Mountains are mostly limestone, IIRC.