About 250 million to 300 million years ago, the Appalachin Mountains began to form from Continental Collision with Africa, and then over time the two continents began to split apart. As this happened, the Atlantic began to form, and this began to form the Coastal Plain. Erosion also shaped the Piedmont, though its roll was not as big as the Coastal Plain due to the Piedmont having harder rock then the Coastal Plain. This is just a breif summary of how North Carolina was formed to what it has amounted to today.
Biologically North Carolina doesn't have an extremely clear history. North Carolina started expereincing its first humans about 10,000 years ago, and of course Europeans arrived in North Carolina about a few hundred years ago. Before human activity, just look down the time scale of the rest of the world and hope you hit a jackpot.
The climate of North Carolina, I estimate, hasn't changed much in the last few hundred years. N.C. has always, since human exploration, remainded a place for troublesome summers and cold and harsh winters. Even with continental drift, the state would've remained over the equator, thus giving it is hot summers. With North Carolina drifting away from the equator, winters can slowly but hardly noticeable get colder. North Carolina hasn't had very much of a climate change since it was formed.
Four major geological events that took place in the history of North Carolina would be
- The formation of North Carolina when land began to form on the earth, which would be a few billion years ago
- Biologically, when humans were formed, North Carolina began to thrive more as a resource for the people who lived here
- North Carolina, when the Appalachian Mountains were created by plate tectonics with Africa, is one of the biggest events that happened in the history of the state.
- When humans began to build things and certain changes in the enviornment happened because of human development and advance in technology.
| The App. Mountains formed by Plate tectonics |
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| Human development, this paticular is from the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke |
Sources:
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-twoworlds/1671 - Learn NC
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