Andrea Benson Geology WA 3 November 4, 2014 How Erosion Builds Mountains Article The article is titled “How Erosion Builds Mountains”. When I chose this article, I figured I would be explaining the break down of erosion because mountains eventually turn into hills from erosion. Denudation is the process of erosion and erosion normally will always happen downhill, but in this case it’s different. Geologists normally call erosion ‘mass wasting’ because rocks and dirt don’t just disappear. This article wants to explain the ways that mountains are built not only by tectonic plate movement, but also by erosion and climate changes. Geologists are surprised to find that erosion from all three factors may be the strongest one in mountain building. The problem geologists seek to understand or solve is what all drives mountain building and the importance that mountains have in shaping the climate and tectonics for our planet. I believe it’s important to understand issues such as this because mountains help geologists study the history of events that have taken place and why the mountains have been created from tectonic plates driving upward. I believe …show more content…
This article explains how plate tectonics are tied with mountain building and then continues on to climate and erosion. After that, the author explains how isostasy is a key feedback to understanding climate and erosion in the processes of mountain building. I believe the order this author used was a great way to understand the order that geologists have studied and understood mountain building. Towards the end, the author explains the three stages that mountains go through. I believe this was the area to talk about this because he continues into the new model for mountain building and finishes with explaining how there will be more research to come with mountain ranges growing and how these are taking shape from all three, erosion, climate and tectonics in the