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Why learn about mountains?
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Mountain Belts - Birth, Growth, and Destruction
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Why learn about mountains?
- 3 Some basic tectonic principles to begin!
- 4 Mountains: Birth and early development
- 5 Critical taper theory
- 6 Megathrust events
- 7 Transition from subduction to collision
- 8 Tripura Ranges-growing tectonic folds
- 9 Mountains: Continental collision stage
- 10 Onset of continental collision
- 11 A single faulting/uplift event in Taiwan
- 12 Mountains have their own gravity!
- 13 Topography and gravity anomalies
- 14 A weak layer deep below mountains
- 15 Gravitational collapse in the western US
- 16 What next for a collapsed mountain range?
