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However, nobody had dug deep into the theory to confirm it until now. Proving that North America’s highest mountain formed because of a collision of tectonic plates isn’t exactly news, of course. That’s how mountains typically formed as the Earth evolved over the past several billion years.
However, the fact that the Denali Fault came to be at the same time as two others, and it happened due to a phenomenon known as inverted metamorphism—where rocks formed under high temperatures and pressure are found above rocks formed under lower pressure and temperatures—is very intriguing.
So, Mount Denlia, North America’s highest mountain, seems to be a grand reminder of where a once-distant land mass was connected to the North American plate.
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Publish date : 2024-12-25 10:42:00
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