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The age of high-energy collisions and mountain-building is long over.
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In traditional geology, too, "revolution" also meant a time of major mountain-building, so that's certainly got a flavor of renewal.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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The age of high-energy collisions and mountain-building is long over.
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Like the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Tian Shan are thought to be one of the greatest examples of intracontinental mountain-building in the world.
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The mountains likely maintained the same height throughout the Pleistocene ice age when mountain-building was occuring at high rates, indicating natural erosion was also high.
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Like the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Tian Shan are thought to be one of the greatest examples of intra-continental mountain-building in the world.
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Like the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Tian Shan are thought to be one of the greatest examples of intra-continental mountain-building in the world.
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The first four epochs covered a time of great mountain-building activity.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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The first four epochs covered a time of great mountain-building activity.
The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001
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But, with this mountain-building business, the Spidlarians are worried " or they ought to be. "
The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994
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