Timeline for What would happen if a world is full of mountains? How would it affect the geography, environment, and gravity of the planet?
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| May 18, 2022 at 23:29 | comment | added | Mark | It would certainly increase mountain formation. I don't know what it would do to the amount of flat land -- smaller plates might tend to erase old mountains through tectonics rather than leave them around to erode. | |
| May 10, 2022 at 8:52 | comment | added | orithena | @Mark So you're saying that smaller tectonic plates would reduce flat land and increase mountain forming? | |
| May 10, 2022 at 1:11 | comment | added | Mark | You get mountains anywhere two plates move towards each other (see the Cascade, Sierra Nevada, and Andes ranges, where the thin Pacific plate is sliding underneath the thick North American and South American plates). Thickness of plate has little to no effect on the process. | |
| May 9, 2022 at 11:08 | history | answered | orithena | CC BY-SA 4.0 |