Re: One more time

don findlay <don@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1. Hills are what's left when valleys erode. i.e., they are not
'pushed up' by 'tectonic forces' of any sort.


This doesn't make any sense.

Valleys are the natural flood plain of a river.

If a valley erodes, it might form a canyon.


All sort of processes form hills: Right off the top of my head, glaciers come
to mind.

In my part of the world there are a number of hills which were formed when
dust blew in from the great plains and settled. [Yazoo bluffs]

I don't think that you can just summarily dismiss tectonic processes when it
comes too hills.
Many mountian ranges are associated with what are called "foot-hills". On
close inspection,
what are called foot-hills are merely severly eroded mountians


What I hope is a polite and thoughtful criticism,

W.C.



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