Mountains Beyond the Collision
The most imposing part of the bridge is not the bridge. It is the abyss beneath it, where rock walls plunge into a deep gorge. Beyond the immediate drama lies a larger puzzle: how mountains rose hundreds of miles from the collision that built the Himalayas.Distance did not spare the crust. When the Indian continental plate pushed into Eurasia, neither buoyant continent sank easily beneath the othe...More
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