@cirruslyyesterday: thats why his name is denver not appalachia #appalachia #geology #maps

Mat PcAfee :

It’s the oldest river on earth

Jackie :

I live in central PA and I have literally never thought about the fact that the Susquehanna just cuts through the mountains, but now that I think about it it’s so weird!!!

Richard :

I believe the the river was there before the mountains formed.

thevictorygarden :

I was looking at Google Maps and it looks like the Potomac does same thing??

Paul :

The carquinez strait is like this

Michael Beauregard :

Wow I haven’t heard the name Susquehanna in a while. It is mentioned a lot in Mormon history. (I grew up Mormon)

Palindrome :

Girl I’m always so happy when you come up on my fyp with some random ass knowledge. Love it more when it’s Philadelphia area based.

Jay :

It’s a beautiful river gorge

Lily 🪷 :

I’m ROLLING at the John Denver call out 😭😂

OhmsOverDraags :

Anyone who lives in the region was taught that we were buried under miles of ice in the last ice age... what if the mountains predate the river, but the river quite literally fell onto the mountains?

Kelsie :

my theory is that the mountain was there first, but ice melt after the ice age helped carve through it

shit_its_rich :

We were under a giant glacier covered most of this area and when it moved that carved what is now the Susquehanna river through the mountains

Tenzing :

Also couldn't leave without dropping a John Denver Dumb & Dumber meme

Dan :

the New River and The Potomac River, were all in place before the Mountains lifted. it's insane to think about. the Finke River in the Northern Territory of Australia, is believed to be the oldest river in the world.

dudr 4556 :

This is my favorite TikTok account 🥰🥰🥰

halftop :

the Susquehanna creates huge ass thunderstorms, too. very cool. definitely not haunted.

Riyahd :

This is so funny to see because I was so confused at them for ages looking at a map and i finally googled it last week and found out. pretty interesting aswell and never knew rivers could form like that

Tenzing :

Pine Creek which empties into the West Branch Susquehanna is in a canyon that was formed by a glacial lake outburst flood and that glacial lobe also reversed the creeks flow. That flood travelled down to the Susquehanna and must have been enormous.

schoolkidsammie :

Kewl

Micah Weber :

there actually are a lot of examples of rivers going straight through mountain ranges for example the Columbia River passing straight east to west through the north to south Cascade mountains and yeah, the reason that will happen is the river is there first, the mountains rise and the river just keeps digging deeper and deeper as the mountains rise and maintains its direction.

user2982899246269 :

Thank you

rap7270 :

word

.ceilseal. :

Tom from Yacubia ☭ 🇵🇸 :

both animals and trees are fairly new to the world

Fake Summit :

What are the mountains? ’Cause there ain’t no latch in the Appalachian Mountains.