New Research Challenges How Scientists Think the Rocky Mountains Formed
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New Research Challenges How Scientists Think the Rocky Mountains Formed
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Those who have stood in the shadow of the American Rockies know the unmatched sense of wonder they convey. For decades, geology textbooks told a clean story about an oceanic plate sliding flatly beneath North America to crumple up these massive peaks far inland. However, a groundbreaking University of Alberta study titled "Seismic evidence for a double-crust architecture beneath the Western US" offers a fresh glimpse that completely upends this classic tale.