The scenery at Gros Morne are among the most spectacular in eastern Canada: the crests of jagged mountains, huge cliffs, bogs and beautiful lakes and inlets But it is mainly the geological features of the park, not its beauty, which earned him the title World Heritage Site.
This national park is considered a perfect illustration of plate tectonics, the theory that the plates of the crust, as big as continents collided and separated throughout the geological evolution of the earth , opening and closing of them oc EANS.
While still attached, Europe and North America were about to split there are 600 million years. Magma of the lower crust is then mounted to the surface to fill the void. It has solidified and is now visible in the cliffs Western Brook Pond (left) in Gros Morne. There are between 570 and 420 million years, an ocean known as Iapetus was between Europe and North America. Sedimentary strata of the park has preserved fossils of almost every phylum known at the time, creating a veritable catalog of evolution. There are 460 million years, the two continents were similar, fueling the rise of the Appalachian and closing Iapetus Ocean. Some blocks of oceanic crust and mantle were then moved westward and are mounted on the surface of the earth
. Much later, glaciers reshaped the area, fjords creating and performing cross sections in the mountains revealed their geological past.
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