How plankton helped form the Earth's mountains 2 billion years ago

Primitive mountains helped to introduce mountains, like these ones here, to our planet. Image: UNSPLASH/Steven Lasry
John Parnell
Professor of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen

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