Many factors can lead to uplift of Earth’s crust; earthquakes rupturing the surface topography, tectonic collisions uplifting the land. But perhaps most interestingly, the Earth’s crust in some regions is slowly uplifting and ‘rebounding’ from the absence of once long-lived and massive ice sheets and glaciers.
The last ice age ended approximately 12,000 …
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