A new study challenged the origin of the Himalayan mountain range. Read more here. A recent study has challenged the origin of the Himalayan mountain range, home to the world's tallest peaks.
The world s highest mountain system may have reached 60% of its current elevation before the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates crashed into each other, giving the peaks an extra push.
Pluvial lakes offer insights What does the rise and fall of latest Pleistocene pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin have to tell us about water and carbon cycles, landscape response to climate change, and how the role the continents play in modulating habitable surface conditions over geologic time? Beats me, but Daniel Enrique Ibarra, visiting assistant professor of environment and society at Brown University, has some thoughts about the subject. And he will share them at the next presentation of the Geologists of Jackson Hole, set for 6 p.m. Jan. 19 via Zoom. “Early geologists documented extensive lacustrine shoreline deposits in many terminal basins of the Great Basin,” GeologistsOfJacksonHole.org writes, “and in doing so formally documented evidence for many classic Earth science concepts including uniformitarianism, isostasy and diastrophism, and glacial-interglacial cycles.”