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Tibetan plateau rose later than we thought

Source
Phys.org

Publication Date
2019-03-01

The Tibetan Plateau today is on average 4,500 meters above sea level. It is the biggest mountain-building zone on Earth. Most analyses to date indicated that, back in the Eocene period some 40 million years ago, the plateau was about as high as it is today.

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https://phys.org/news/2019-03-tibetan-plateau-rose-thought.html