#continental-drift

Nobody talks about why the Himalayas are still getting taller, and it isn’t erosion slowing down or new rock forming, it’s that India is still ramming into Asia at roughly the speed your fingernails grow

The Himalayas grow about as fast as your fingernails because a continent is still driving into another one, and the math behind that slow ramming is stranger than the mountains themselves. The post Nobody talks about why the Himalayas are still getting taller…