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ScienceDaily: People commonly perceive mountain ranges as jumbles of pyramid-shaped masses that steadily narrow as they slope upward.
While that's certainly how they appear from a ground-level human viewpoint, new research shows that pyramid-shaped mountains are not only a minority in nature, but also that most ranges actually increase in area at higher elevations. Besides reshaping the mountains in our mind's eye, the findings could lead scientists to reconsider conservation strategies -- which are often based......
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Reshaping mountains human mind save species facing climate change
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 18th, 2015
Posted in Water Conservation