Drift, shmrift. Drift makes watching grass grow seem like an extreme sport. I thought you were in a hurry! You want a big mountain fast, you want a volcano.
Haleakala qualifies as big at 10,000 feet. Add on the 19,680 feet concealed under the ocean and you have your 30,000 foot mountain. Haleakala is less than a million years old. Mauna Loa is taller at 13,600 feet and younger: 0.1 to 0.5 million years old. These are not some puny piles of soot either - they are massive mountains full of earth power you can feel through your feet with shoes on.
Volcano ages from https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/ASK/hawaii_volcano_age.html
But still; you will get old waiting for this sort of thing. Let's get on with the mountains already.
Paricutin grew from a flat place in a Mexican field to 1391 feet over 9 years. That is 154 feet / year. 30,000 feet/ 154 = 194 years to build your mountains.
That is a pretty good clip. Volcano bonuses: gouts of hot lava, flying volcanic bombs, lahar mud flows. Cherry on top: when they are erupting, green bolts of lightning strike the clouds of soot. Top that, plate tectonics.
The earth power. How can I write about Haleakala without looking at some sweet images of it? You too.
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