Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route(phys.org)
68 pointsby defrost4 hours ago5 comments
  • anthomtban hour ago
    Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
    • indoordin0sauran hour ago
      Having recently gotten into watching documentaries or youtube videos of accounts of mountaineering expeditions it's amazing how lazy content creators, film makers and journalists can be when choosing what images or videos to show. You'll get something about climbing a mountain in the Andes and keep getting shown completely misleading pictures of Himalayan mountains, etc.
      • PyWoody16 minutes ago
        Simple, lazy stuff like that always drives me up the wall.

        The HGTV show House Hunters used to be wildly inaccurate with their map location pins. On more than one occasion they'd say a couple is from the Bay Area but when they show the map the location pin would be in LA County. Like, come on. That's not even close.

    • wil42135 minutes ago
      Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
      • MarkusQ4 minutes ago
        Sadly, they "learned" it from us. People have been doing this sort of shoddy fill work since the dawn of television (and even earlier if you count wildly misplaced / inaccurate textual descriptions).
  • markbnjan hour ago
    For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).
    • arethuzaan hour ago
      I can also recommend: "The Earth: An Intimate History" by Richard Fortey
  • sethgrisham2 hours ago
    The invisible hand of the lithospheric drip
  • shermantanktopan hour ago
    Fascinating to think of entire mountain ranges moving up and down like the skin on a wobbly pudding.
    • SideburnsOfDooman hour ago
      And the speed at which it happens:

      > a cold, round anomaly about 200 km below the surface.

      > By estimating how far the drip had fallen and calculating the speed of its descent, the researchers estimate that the drip broke off between 2 and 5 million years ago.

      A few megayears later, the bit that broke off is still falling.

      200km in 2m years, I make that 0.1m per year. Roughly - a bit less if it's > 2m years, and started below the surface.

  • namenotrequired2 hours ago
    Can we take a moment to appreciate that Dr. Adam Smith works at the University of Glasgow?