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Climate can grind mountains faster than they can be rebuilt
2015-12-01 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Researchers for the first time 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. The international study conducted by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and led by scientists from the University of Florida, The University of Texas at Austin and Oregon State University, adds...
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