How are mountains formed?
Mountains Move Slowly
How are mountains formed?
Mountains look like they've always just been there — calm, ancient, unbothered. But every mountain has a wild origin story, and most of them involve the ground itself getting pushed around. The Earth, it turns out, is not as solid and settled as it pretends.
Here's the secret. The Earth's surface isn't one smooth shell. It's cracked into giant pieces called tectonic plates — think of a hard-boiled egg whose shell has shattered into slabs that still cling to the egg. Those slabs carry whole continents on their backs, and they are slowly, constantly on the move.
