Timeline for Can a mountain range form with a very loose surface?
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| Sep 18, 2020 at 16:41 | comment | added | jeffronicus | For a quirky origin, there's a Peter Hamilton book that has a recurring time loop that ends up spitting out a character's broken escape pod at the same altitude every few minutes or hours. Over the decades/centuries, the debris forms a mountain... | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 22:53 | comment | added | Mark | @AlexP, cinder cones tend to occur in groups. | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 21:05 | comment | added | DWKraus | @AlexP Yes, I know a cinder cone is not a mountain range, but a mountain range isn't going to be built of fluff in a day. I suggested a structure LIKE a cinder cone, which is too small by itself, but a whole rift that opened up, generating numerous similar structures and volcanoes, along with large amounts of ash and pumice, would coat a whole region in loose material, especially if it was already a volcanic range. Short of a freak weather event that deposited thousands of feet of light, fluffy ultra-cold snow, I'm not sure what else fits. Plus this was volcanic. | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 19:10 | comment | added | TCooper | @AlexP Seems to be a trivial extrapolation from one to many events, or a larger volcanic event, to cover a range instead of one mountain | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 12:07 | comment | added | AlexP | One cinder cone is not a mountain range. The question wants an entire range. | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 6:35 | comment | added | Joe Bloggs | Not to mention various forms of noxious gas and dangerously low visibility if there’s an eruption ongoing... | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 1:42 | comment | added | Willk | This was going to be my answer. That volcanic crap would be impossible to climb. And the mountain just keeps crapping out more. | |
| Sep 17, 2020 at 0:22 | history | answered | DWKraus | CC BY-SA 4.0 |