Geological process
Also known as Mountain building
Mountain building. Not a single mechanism but a family of them: collision, subduction-related uplift, crustal shortening and thrusting, magmatic addition, and extensional fault-block uplift can each raise topography.
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Mountains are raised by more than one mechanism: continental collision buckles and thickens crust, subduction lifts the overriding plate and builds volcanic ranges, and the crustal roots beneath large ranges record thickening as well as uplift.
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Evidence: Kious 1996 Primary authority
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