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December 20, 2010
TECTONICS
Ancient Raindrops Reveal A Wave of Mountains Sent South By Sinking Farallon Plate
Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2010
50 million years ago, mountains began popping up in southern British Columbia. over the next 22 million years, a wave of mountain building swept (geologically speaking) down western North America as far south as Mexico and as far east as Nebraska, according to Stanford geochemists. Their findings help put to rest the idea that the mountains mostly developed from a vast, Tibet-like plateau that rose up across most of the western U.S. roughly simultaneously and then subsequently collapsed and eroded ... read more

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