Has anyone ever heard this about Florida..?

Question

I recently started school and I have a Florida Ecology class..the teacher told us that 500 million years ago that Florida detached from Africa and floated over to north america where it collided with north america and created the Appalachian Mountains..Has anyone ever heard this before? From what I remember Pangaea existed 250 million years ago so how is that possible..were all the continents disconnected 500 million years ago and then came together and then disconnected again into the position they are now?

Answer 1

Before Pangaea formed, the continents were separate and they all drifted together to form Pangaea. They weren't quite the continents we have now. I don't know about Florida, but I know that half of Ireland was attached to America at that time, and I know it was the collision between America and the other continents that caused the Appalachians to form.