Monday, November 30, 2015

Climate can grind mountains faster than they can be rebuilt

For the first time, researchers have attempted to measure all the material leaving and entering a mountain range over more than a million years, and discovered that erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them.

from Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1LK2tTn
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