Timeline for How Would the Mountains Form in This Supercontinent?
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| Nov 16, 2020 at 16:45 | comment | added | BIOStheZerg | Additionally, please note that the very polar region is a bit darker (=lower) than the area just below (80-85 deg N), which could be very well a leftover of such history! | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 16:44 | comment | added | BIOStheZerg | @JohnWDailey I guess the point of this answer was that if a single plate can create a very high plateau (of width not negligible compared to the length of the range!), several plates all pushing on the polar one from different directions could achieve something similar but way more. Make it slow down after doing the lifting and erosion (mostly glaciers) will take care of the Himalayan circumpolar crown! | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 2:00 | comment | added | JohnWDailey | Except that continental - continental convergence gives the mountains a LINEAR shape, which is not what we're seeing in this map. | |
| Nov 16, 2020 at 1:35 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |