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Deep within the Earth's crust, tectonic plates grind and heave, colliding, folding, and thrusting vast slabs of rock skyward to form towering mountain ranges.

Ancient inland seas surge across the land, carving channels and leaving behind thick layers of fertile sediment.

Then come the glaciers, ice blanketing the uplifted Earth, scouring it clean, carving deep U-shaped valleys through granite and schist.

Mighty rivers then follow like lifelines, tracing the contours of the continent.

The restless motion of those plates sparks volcanoes and earthquakes, shaping and reshaping the land in an endless cycle of creation and destruction.

North America as we know it, and like all the Earth, was born from these colossal natural forces.