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The appalachain mountain was created due the separation of two main land masses by Rheic ocean. in the south sat Gondwana a super continent consisting of South America, Africa, India Australlia and Antartica to the North was Laurasia made up of North America, Greenland, Europe and part of Asia. there was an Acatlan complex attached to Laurasia, the complex broke off Gondwana abt 80 million yrs earlier drifted towards North America along with other masses, closing an older ocean know as the lapetus ocean.as it did so the collision created the Appalachain mountain

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