| How long does it take for mountains to grow(in years/decades)?
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| Question Date: 2011-03-17 |
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Answer 1:
The tallest mountains on earth, the Himalayas, started forming about 50 million years ago and are still growing about two inches every year! |
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Answer 2:
Mountains can grow at rates as high as one inch per year...so to get very high mountains requires MILLIONS of years. |
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Answer 3:
It takes tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years to build a typical mountain range, except for volcanoes. Small volcanoes can form in months, but big volcanoes also take tens of thousands of years or more.
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