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		lawkwok on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high m... What were the prevailing theories at the time?

8bitsrule on July 7, 2023 | [–]

Decent (shortish) summary here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orogeny#History_of_the_concept

kabdib on July 7, 2023 | [–]

Oh man, it's been years. I'm visiting this weekend and I'll take a whirl through those old books.

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