Given their strength and mass, mountains don’t appear to have a lot of vulnerabilities, but based on a recently published study, the rocky elevations do face one very significant threat: climate.
Given their strength and mass, mountains don’t appear to have a lot of vulnerabilities, but based on a recently published study, the rocky elevations do face one very significant threat: climate.
After about a decade of sample collection and testing, a team of researchers found that under some climactic conditions, mountains erode at a pace that tectonic plate-triggered rebuilding can’t keep up with.
Scientists identify a significant cause of accelerated wear as heavy glacial activity.
That conclusion was drawn after the
