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12 U.S. Mountains Scientists Say Are Still Growing

Suhail Ahmed

  Across the American landscape, some of our most iconic summits are not finished yet – they’re inching skyward while we go about our lives. The mystery is deceptively subtle: growth measured in millimeters each year, but compounded over centuries by relentless tectonic pressure. Researchers are now reading these movements like heartbeats, mapping tiny uplifts ...