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  • The age of high-energy collisions and mountain-building is long over.

    Md. quake is a creak in annals of seismic events 2010

  • In traditional geology, too, "revolution" also meant a time of major mountain-building, so that's certainly got a flavor of renewal.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • The age of high-energy collisions and mountain-building is long over.

    Md. quake is a creak in annals of seismic events 2010

  • Like the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Tian Shan are thought to be one of the greatest examples of intracontinental mountain-building in the world.

    Tian Shan montane conifer forests 2008

  • The mountains likely maintained the same height throughout the Pleistocene ice age when mountain-building was occuring at high rates, indicating natural erosion was also high.

    Southland montane grasslands 2008

  • Like the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Tian Shan are thought to be one of the greatest examples of intra-continental mountain-building in the world.

    Tian Shan foothill arid steppe 2008

  • Like the Rocky Mountains of North America, the Tian Shan are thought to be one of the greatest examples of intra-continental mountain-building in the world.

    Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows 2008

  • The first four epochs covered a time of great mountain-building activity.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • The first four epochs covered a time of great mountain-building activity.

    The Source John Clayton Nils Jansma 2001

  • But, with this mountain-building business, the Spidlarians are worried " or they ought to be. "

    The Magic Engineer Modesitt, L. E. 1994

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