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Do mountains change size if so how?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Mountains are made by two tectonic plates moving into each other, causing them both two move upwards. As the world spins, the two tectonic plates crash into each other more and more, until they both move up a bit more.

Example, Mount Everest grows two inches every year.

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