Olympus Mons is pretty freakin’ incredible. See the third illustration here: Olympus Mons is How Tall?! | The Martian Chronicles
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effect of the crumpling into china. the himalayas get higher while india keeps shrinking.
Huh. Thanks. Just today I had an argument with a doctor’s secretary who had double-billed me, and started to pester me for the umpteenth time.
I told her “you can bill me till the mountains crumble into the sea, but I won’t pay it.” (It felt good to get flowery in that moment of high dudgeon.)
How long would it take for the mountains to crumble into the sea, anyway?
[I also woudn’t mind knowing how that poetic phrase came into use…]
island arcs (aleutians, japan, philippines, indonesia, etc.) erode the fastest. i don’t have an accurate figure but in the philippines, nothing is older than cretaeceous-paleogene (roundabout 60 million years.) of course, this does not consider the microcontinent which was accreted from china. micro-continents are billions of years old.
give a chain of volcanic islands 100 million years or slightly longer to fully erode below sea level.
Psalm 46:2
Darby Bible Translation
Therefore will we not fear though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the heart of the seas;
Most of us know the phrase as worded above by the great Ben E. King song “Stand by Me.”
So I have time to make popcorn?
but some go below sea level a bit faster. there was santorini, krakatoa, little surtsey.