A collaborative research team is studying the mountain range and its impact on the climate
A Lehigh geology professor and two students spent a month this summer studying the Altai Mountains in western Mongolia and returned to Bethlehem profoundly changed.
How high – and massive – do mountains need to grow and how long does it take before their elevation impacts global climate patterns?
“The Altai impacts how the rest of the climate system circulates” well beyond central and east Asia, said Frank Pazzaglia, professor of geology in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and leader of the Lehigh research team.
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