If un-knowledgeable folk are also allowed - the English Lake District is also a recently risen dome of ancient rocks. Interpretation I've read never suggests hotspots but a shrug from the distant Alpine mountain building. (Which has obvious folding on the south coast but not anywhere closer.)
Certainly you are allowed! You're knowledgeable! I should have thought of the similarity to the oval/domal Lake District. I see from wikipedia that "a significant part of the uplift is thought to have been caused by underplating at the end of the Palaeocene" -- which I suspect means they don't really grasp the modern uplift at the Lake District much better than we do for the Adirondacks.
This was fascinating. Love the history. I spent a summer in the Adirondacks in 1968. I love it, there. You are a veritable encyclopedia, Dick. Love these posts.
If un-knowledgeable folk are also allowed - the English Lake District is also a recently risen dome of ancient rocks. Interpretation I've read never suggests hotspots but a shrug from the distant Alpine mountain building. (Which has obvious folding on the south coast but not anywhere closer.)
Certainly you are allowed! You're knowledgeable! I should have thought of the similarity to the oval/domal Lake District. I see from wikipedia that "a significant part of the uplift is thought to have been caused by underplating at the end of the Palaeocene" -- which I suspect means they don't really grasp the modern uplift at the Lake District much better than we do for the Adirondacks.
That's the impression I get. Even seen it attributed to Variscan uplift .
This was fascinating. Love the history. I spent a summer in the Adirondacks in 1968. I love it, there. You are a veritable encyclopedia, Dick. Love these posts.
Thanks!