- She uses the phrase “water-logged plates” to explain how oceans are heavier than continents so the North American Plate (which is carrying the entirety of North America + half the Atlantic Ocean) is 🏄‍♀️ surfing on top of the Pacific Plate—one inch a year!
- North America makes its regular trip to the equator every few eons.
- Metamorphisis cooks soft sandstone to quartzite, one of the hardest rocks evar.
- Red rock country in SW USA is (just, *is*) because it was the bottom of a primordial sea.