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Letter: Mountain anxiety

Published 6 June 2007

From Eileen Holttum

Kate Ravilious’s account of the Gamburtsev mountains in Antartica mentions the Rockies as an example of a range created by tectonic activity (12 May, p 38). In North America, is it not the Cascade and Sierra Nevada ranges that are currently rising from tectonic movement, rather than the Rockies?

The editor writes:

Yes, those would have been clearer examples.

Edinburgh, UK

Issue no. 2607 published 9 June 2007

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