Country music star Brad Paisley paid tribute to #geology on Saturday’s A Prairie Home Companion, and its just too silly not to share: youtu.be/qF0iC6DXMQ8 Way back in the distant past Five hundred million years or greater Tennessee was a tectonic plate Under the ocean near the equator. In a few million years the plates began A steady northern migration Volcanoes blew and the earth arose To form the Appalachians. The range of mountains began to form Four hundred million years ago And sandstone formations Along the Cumberland Plateau The Paleozoic and the Mesozoic Built the hills just like a mason And in the Cenozoic era Appeared the Nashville basin. Beneath the limestone, sandstone, and shale, The earth moved as it must And formed the Blue Ridge mountains By subhorizontal thrust. And here on plutonic igneous rocks On a Precambrian promontory That is where I first met you Which is a whole other story...
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 17:50:20 +0000
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