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CSUN Professors’ Research Rewrites Rocky Mountains’ Origin Story

Like detectives tracking down clues in a decades-old cold case, a team of researchers led by California State University, Northridge geologists have blown a hole into the long-accepted hypothesis that the Rocky Mountains were born by a single collision between tectonic plates, or pieces of the Earth’s crust, 90 million years ago.

https://scvnews.com/csun-professors-research-rewrites-rocky-mountains-origin-story/

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