Derrick P. Hasterok

The Largest Mountain Belt of the Last Billion Years: The East African Orogen, its tectono-topographic evolution and global significance

Hutton's Principle of Uniformitarianism suggests that the present is the key to the past, and in the present, Earth's topography is dominated by the Himalaya. The geological record clearly preserves past mountain ranges, but few have purported to have the effect on Earth's surfac...