Joel Kontinen:
Why don-t mountains on Earth grow taller than Mount Everest? According to Life Science, there are two factors:
As Nadine McQuarrie, a professor in the department of geology and environmental science at the University of Pittsburg says, the first is gravity. That is, it can only grow to 8,840 meters (29,029 feet ) above sea level. Mmountains of mars can grow much taller. “Within Mars' Olympus Mons, the tallest known volcano in the solar system, extends 82,020 feet (25,000 m) high, nearly three times taller than Mount Everest”, she says.
The second factor is rivers: they erode material, so that the height of Everest is the limit.
What she hasn’t noticed: The flood of Noah’s day brought the uplift that Mars didn.t have, It brought the rise of mountains, that secular science can’t tell.
Source:
5aplakoglu, Yasemin. 2019.Why Don't Mountains Grow Forever? Live Science (19. October).
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