The Mountain Paradox: Why Earth's Ranges Seem So Young

I accept the idea of continental drift, plate tectonics that so far makes as much sense as anything else that's been proposed. But here's the thing. If you're if you're if you're spreading centers a few centimeters per year, and that lateral movement of the plates is what's causing the buckling of the mountains, right? The the uplifting of the mountains whether, you know, whether it's a a depending you can have different ways. It can be one on top of another can buckle up. But the point is is the uplift shouldn't be any faster really than the estimated lateral movement of the plates. However, as you start lifting up and the the higher you get above sea level, the more accelerated the rates of erosion and down cutting because. Right. So, what happens is that you can take the estimate and look at the volumes of sediment that's being carried to the oceans every year, and then you can extrapolate from that and estimate, well, at this rate, how long would it take for the entire continent to be eroded down to basically the term in in geology is a peneplain. It would just be a flat, pretty ...