Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate.pdfVIP

REVIEW ARTICLE Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg? Peter Molnar Philip England The high altitudes of most mountain ranges have commonly been ascribed to late Cenoloic uplift, without reference to when crustal thickening and other tectonic processes occurred. Deep incision and recent denudation of these mountain ranges, abundant late Cenoloic coarse sediment near them, and pala