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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by masklinn on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:05AM (#28651664)
The himalayas grow actively and quickly, we're talking of cm/year scale.

So 200kya means the site could have moved 2+km up (assuming a roughly constant growth rate), which is nothing to sneeze at or ignore. There's one hell of a difference living at 4000m versus 2000.

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Re:200k-year-old hand art found near a Tibetan hot spring by hutzlibu on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:58AM (#28652110)
I remembered that fact, too and was wondering about it, how it fits with it. My conclusion was rather, that the growth rate was probably not constant over that time, because yeah, 2km is quite a lot. But others mentioned that this area was quite unchanged.

I am going to investigate..

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