the north Carolina land mass formed about 1.7 billion years ago and has been in constant change ever since continents broke apart merged and then drifted apart again as land movement occurred to form the Appalachian mountains.

Why does earth rotate? because earth is formed from cold gases collapsing due to gravity because the matter in the nebula that formed earth was spinning because earth forms more than 99% of the mass of the solar system because the hydrogen atoms inside the nebula fused to form helium