🌿🪨 Nature’s puzzle solved!

For 150 years, geologists puzzled over Utah’s Green River: it flows “uphill” through the Uinta Mountains despite being younger than the rock.

New research reveals the river was first, with the mountains rising slowly around it, allowing the river to erode downward while the land lifted upward. A beautiful example of patient geologic dance.
Read more: https://www.popsci.com/environment/why-green-river-flows-uphill/

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