It is not difficult to be impressed by the grandeur of high mountainous regions, but it is difficult to reconstruct how the elevation of such regions evolved. A study of the Tibetan plateau does just that.
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Mulch, A., Chamberlain, C. The rise and growth of Tibet. Nature 439, 670–671 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/439670a
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