Geologists discover how Australia's highest mountain was created

Science Daily ^ | 3/16/2016 | University of Sydney

[JimSEA]

Of course, the Applalachians had their day as higher than today’s Himalayas. Erosion - wasting levels them all down and not all orogens are the same to begin with.

[Organic Panic]

I can’t wait to go back to Australia for vacation. Best trip I ever took. And I’ve been all over the place.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks colorado tanker. IOW, they also don't know. :')

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[FroggyTheGremlim]

*Its all about uplift and subduction.*

Yup! Uplift and seduction!

[PIF]

Thanks - took a while ...

[dfwgator]

[JimSEA]

It’s largely a function of age with eroded Australia being pretty flat with some of the oldest rocks in the world and New Zealand being one of the newest land masses. Every thing gets flat with age. Eventually the Grand Tetons will be flat and saggy.

[colorado tanker]

We watched Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, a delightful series set in interwar Melbourne. One of the episodes takes place at an Australian ski area. I didn’t even know Australia had ski resorts!

[Long Jon No Silver]

This article is wrong on one point. The Great Dividing Range, as we Aussies call it, extends from FNQ (far north Queensland in Cape York) down to ‘eastern’ Victoria not western Victoria.

[Rockpile]

Kansas? Into Thick Air!

[Rockpile]

Alfred Wegener was just a kook who wore a tinfoil hat.

[NorthMountain]

I drove through that area a few years ago; it was spectacular.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)

[minnesota_bound]

A giant gopher created it.

[minnesota_bound]

#7 You talking about women?....... : )

[Talisker]

#7 You talking about women?....... : )

I'm always talking about women.

Even when I'm not talking about women, inevitably, inescapably, I'm always talking about women.

And so are you.