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This isn’t really the Vale of Arryn, but it plays it on TV.
At times, I feel like I have a better handle on the history of
Westeros and
Essos (which I obviously need to follow the
Game of Thrones storyline), than the history of our actually-existing world. It never even occurred to me, though, to wonder if the Narrow Sea is a
geologically-recent development, resulting from the separation of the two continents about 25 million years ago.
A group of (mostly) Stanford geologists, however, have been wondering about that, and their ideas are collecting in the form of a geological history of Westeros at their blog, Generation Anthropocene.
I have been out-geeked, and I yield.
Photo credit: Gabridelca [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
