If these mountains formed 50 million years ago, why are they still high?
What will be an ideal response?
Although the mountains ceased actively deforming isostasy continues to produce uplift as erosion sculpts the landscape (there is clearly more to this, such as the role of Cenozoic thermal events, but that is beyond the scope of this class level)
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A. lightning B. tornado C. cold D. heat E. hurricane
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