PBS Eons: When the Earth Had Supermountains

PBS Eons has a new episode. This one is about some truly giant mountains and the evolutionary changes they drove.

Supermountains are so ridiculously enormous that, as far as we know, they’ve only ever formed twice, far back in deep time, and they lasted for just a small fraction of our planet’s history. And both of the times when Earth had supermountains seem to coincide with some of the most profound evolutionary shifts in the history of life.

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