[JimSEA]

Another model for "mountain building" with applications where no plate collisions or subduction zone volcanics are apparent.

Also, today two outstanding virtual tours Virtual Geologic Tour from Gray Mountain to Black Mesa, Northern Arizona (Arizona's Dinosaur country) the second Ascending Grand Canyon's Bright Angel Trail with Dr. Dale Nations both from the Arizona Geological Survey. Well worth the time, next best thing to actually going there with a geologist as a guide.

[DocRock]

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[colorado tanker]

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[House Atreides]

Atlas shrugged on the opposite side of the globe causing those mountains to be uplifted!

[PIF]

A”Eastern Australia was drifting over a subducted plate graveyard, giving it a sinking feeling,” said co-author Dr Kara Matthews, a former PhD candidate at the University now at the University of Oxford. “But around 100 million years ago subduction came to a halt, resulting in the entire region being uplifted, forming the Eastern Highlands.”

Its all about uplift and subduction.

[Talisker]

A research team spearheaded by Professor Dietmar Müller from the University's School of Geosciences used high performance computing code...

That's MR. High Performance Computing Code, to you unwashed taxpaying masses!

[SeekAndFind]

It's not a very high mountain comparatively

[Mr. K]

[aquila48]

“high performance computing code”

WOW!

[buckalfa]

Naw, first there was this mole hill and ------.

[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.

[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]

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