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  1. Jun 28, 2020 · The Green Mountains seem eternal, but they were not the first mountain range to cover Vermont. Wikimedia Commons photo by Niranjan Arminius

  2. The Green Mountains are a mountain range in the U.S. state of Vermont and are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains. The range runs primarily south to north and extends approximately 250 miles (400 km) from the border with Massachusetts to the border with Quebec, Canada.

  3. Jul 15, 2020 · The Green Mountains were reshaped about 100 million years later during the Acadian Orogeny. During that mountain-forming event, magma surged through cracks in proto-North America and created the granite peaks of northeastern Vermont and New Hampshire.

  4. Green Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountain system, U.S., extending for 250 miles (402 km) from north to south through the centre of Vermont and having a maximum width of 36 miles (58 km). Many peaks rise above 3,000 feet (900 metres), with the loftiest being Mount Mansfield (4,393 feet.

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  5. About 500 million years ago, Vermont was part of Laurentia and located in the tropics. [43] The central and southern Green Mountain range include the oldest rocks in Vermont, formed about one billion years ago during the first mountain building period (or orogeny).

  6. Jul 15, 2018 · Woodbury certainly wasn’t the first Vermonter to worry about the dangers of indiscriminate cutting. As a child in the early 1800s, George Perkins Marsh noticed how the clearcut slopes of Mount...

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  8. Natural History of the Vermont Mountains. Old Rock. The north/south-trending ridges of the Green Mountains roll across Vermont like great ocean swells frozen in time, cloaked in the verdant forests that give them their name.

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