Increased erosion associated with the rise of the world's great mountain ranges has been held to be the cause of a prolonged episode of past climate cooling. That connection is now brought into doubt.
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Goddéris, Y. Mountains without erosion. Nature 465, 169–170 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/465169a
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