I feel like a guy named “steve” was there
To be clear, the rocks that the mountain is made of are reasonably old (oldest on Earth is closer to 4.0 billion years, but anything >500 million is fairly rare), but the landform of a mountain is a combination of uplift and erosion, which is fairly young. The only source for the age of erosion I could find (didn’t search hard) mentioned the glaciation of the Pleistocene, which seems reasonable.
Isn’t the entire Earth over 2 billion years old? Seems disingenuous to say that one mountain is that old when in reality the entire Earth is that old.
By this logic I am over 2 billion years old and so are you.
We are all as old as the big bang, my little clump of stardust
The universe is 13.8 billion years old, but we say Earth is 4.6 billion, because that is when it formed. This mountain range formed 2 billion years ago. Here is some rock that is just a few minutes old. https://www.youtube.com/usgs/live
Season 3 of the show Out of the Wild takes place here. Beautiful scenary and if you like that type of show I highly recommend you watch it. Season 1 was solid too.
I think I read a fiction book about something ver similar as a kid. Almost sure it was from Arthur Conan Doyle
I read that too, many times. It’s The lost world
I‘m intrigued!
The Lost World?
Pretty neat account of a hike up that sucker https://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=%2FST%2Fdb%2Fread.php%3Fidx%3D830&ckattempt=1
There are dinosaurs up there.
Forbidden overcooked steak
Throw some A1 on that and it’s still good.
Could it be an alien craft landing pad? Ancient astronaut theorists, say yes.
It looks like somebody just dropped a paving stone in dry ice.
Every few years I am reminded that it exists, and become briefly obsessed. I want to write an entire fictional setting based on Roraima’s geological and ecological oddity
Pixar beat you to it
Though I guess the waterfall is based on Angel Falls in Venezuela
I was going to go more conceptual with it, the idea of a physically inaccessible place as an otherworld, probably have it be a place supernatural creatures visit and do like an Enemy Mine thing
Was this the place where that young adult apocalypse book was based on? I think it was called the giver or something.
Never heard of it, but I can’t find anything that connects it to Roraima.
That image is from the movie. I don’t recall there ever being much mention of the location or geography in the book.
True, just made me think of it.
I’d read it.
This is the kind of location I look for when building a house in Minecraft.
Link missing?
The Great Plateau
I was coming to post this in case someone else hadn’t. It’s spot on.
I had no idea about any of this, now I’m fascinated!
