[IYAS9YAS]

Not only do the subducted plates move, but they have changed where our states are located. Oregon, Idaho, and Wyoming are now in the Midwest. People in Chicago, St. Louis, and Minneapolis need to keep an eye out for new volcanos in their neighborhoods.

And there is this, too: "The process started at the Oregon-Idaho border about 16 million years ago and propagated northwestward, forming a line of volcanoes that are progressively younger as they stretched northwest to present-day Wyoming," Zhou added.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow...missed that one. Guess I was laughing too hard at the “Midwest” idiocy.

[Chickensoup]

since when?

[ETL]

And there is this, too: "The process started at the Oregon-Idaho border about 16 million years ago and propagated northwestward, forming a line of volcanoes that are progressively younger as they stretched northwest to present-day Wyoming," Zhou added.

At first I thought she perhaps got confused over the direction the *plate* is moving vs the direction the trail is moving. But then realized the plate is moving to the southwest, not northwest.