Monday, 20 January, 2020


Stable than We Think
It expands, causing the rocks to split apart. Knight and Grab are challenging centuries old assumptions about what causes mountains to change shape. “Many people have considered mountains to be pretty passive agents, just sitting there to be affected by cold climates over these long periods of time.
“This evidence suggests that that is completely wrong. African mountain landscapes sometimes evolve very quickly and very dramatically over short periods of time. These are actually very sensitive environments and we need to know more about them.”
It is also useful to try and quantify how much debris is moved by these blasts which can cause boulders weighing several tons to move tens of meters. “We can identify where the angular, broken up material has come from, trace it back to source, and determine the direction and extent to which the debris has been blasted on either side.
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