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Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-geologists-mystery-green-river-uphill.html
63•defrost•3h ago

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namenotrequired•1h ago
Can we take a moment to appreciate that Dr. Adam Smith works at the University of Glasgow?
sethgrisham•1h ago
The invisible hand of the lithospheric drip
IAmBroom•1h ago
You sly dog.
anthomtb•1h ago
Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?
indoordin0saur•1h ago
Having recently gotten into watching documentaries or youtube videos of accounts of mountaineering expeditions it's amazing how lazy content creators, film makers and journalists can be when choosing what images or videos to show. You'll get something about climbing a mountain in the Andes and keep getting shown completely misleading pictures of Himalayan mountains, etc.
PyWoody•5m ago
Simple, lazy stuff like that always drives me up the wall.

The HGTV show House Hunters used to be wildly inaccurate with their map location pins. On more than one occasion they'd say a couple is from the Bay Area but when they show the map the location pin would be in LA County. Like, come on. That's not even close.

wil421•24m ago
Darn AI agents, I guess they are still cheaper than interns.
gus_massa•10m ago
I was confused by the image too:

A few images: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=4e98a81333b88c42&udm=2...

Map with elevation: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gates+of+Lodore/@40.585090...

shermantanktop•1h ago
Fascinating to think of entire mountain ranges moving up and down like the skin on a wobbly pudding.
SideburnsOfDoom•47m ago
And the speed at which it happens:

> a cold, round anomaly about 200 km below the surface.

> By estimating how far the drip had fallen and calculating the speed of its descent, the researchers estimate that the drip broke off between 2 and 5 million years ago.

A few megayears later, the bit that broke off is still falling.

200km in 2m years, I make that 0.1m per year. Roughly - a bit less if it's > 2m years, and started below the surface.

markbnj•1h ago
For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).
arethuza•41m ago
I can also recommend: "The Earth: An Intimate History" by Richard Fortey

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