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Climate can grind mountains faster than they can be rebuilt


November 23, 2015

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An international research team has for the first time 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 wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them. Researchers studied the St. Elias Mountains on Alaska's coast and found that erosion accelerated sharply about 1 million years ago when global cooling triggered stronger ice ages.Full Story

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