The Freakiest of October CARBONIFEROUS Shifting Continents Create Mountains As Pangea Is Born

The large land masses of Euramerica and Gondwana continued to move toward one another and collide during the Carboniferous Period. Collisions meant some of the land uplifted into mountains.

These mountains had no plants covering them. During rainy seasons huge amounts of surface rock was washed into flood plains and deltas. Eurameica and Gondwana were working to form the large supercontinent Pangea that would be important during the next period of the Paleozoic Era.