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Science 14 March 1997:
Vol. 275. no. 5306, pp. 1564 - 1565
DOI: 10.1126/science.275.5306.1564
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Research News

Richard A. Kerr

From Denver, the "Mile-High City," to California's Sierra Nevada, the American West stands high above sea level. For years, geologists thought that a thick, buoyant continental crust raised the West's spectacular scenery, but new geophysical surveys suggest that the forces holding up many Western mountains and plateaus come from much deeper, in Earth's mantle.

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