We’re Wrong About How Mountains Form

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We think we know how mountains form. Plate tectonics causes rock to be pushed up at fault boundaries. Except that model is hard to prove, and a new study suggests it might actually be a lot more complicated.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01185-4
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