From the mighty Mississippi River to the ancient Appalachian mountains, Tennessee hosts many magnificent landforms -- including bat caves, meteor craters, waterfalls and wild mountains carpeted with rich forests.
But Tennessee's beauty isn't just skin deep. Our state also has a fascinating geologic history.
Like barges floating on the churning liquid magna below, our continental plates have slowly rafted across the planet, sometimes wedging together to form mountain ranges, other times tearing apart to create seas, their floors replenished by lava from spreading seams on the ocean floor. |