What is this shit? America explain. Half of your continent is

http://www.kckay.com/images/maps/CESW_NA_lithosphere_topography_v05.jpg

>>53515072
What's wrong fatty, to out of shape to walk up a few hills?

>>53515072
More like a third maybe but yes.

>>53515072
Yeah mexico has it rough

>>53515072
>rocky mountains
>wet sea
>sandy desert

murricans everyone

>>53515072
Kind of.
Part of that Western expanse is actually steppe.
Some of the Southwest is flat desert, mingled with low, bare mountains.

>>53519292
I actually lol'd
are you really german?

>>53515072
Here in Nevada we have 110 mountain ranges IIRC. Most in the nation!

>>53515072
I lived on the Colorado plateau for a while. Travelling around you don't really notice the elevation of 4 whole states being 3,000 ft above sea level (at its lowest point) because the change in elevation is very gradual. Clouds out there just feel a bit lower.

About 100 million years ago that whole mountain range was a shallow transcontinental sea that bisected Noth America (Gondwanna at the time) in half. One day it just started rising out of the ocean due to plate activity and it hasn't stopped since. The funny thing is that the much smaller Appalachian mountains are 10 times older.

>>53515072
no most of those are hills this map is just autistic at showing elevation