Lightning strikes implicated as a major factor in mountain erosional processes!

UncleMatt

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I saw this online today, and had to share it with you guys. After some thought, this makes a lot of sense. You can read all about it HERE. Maybe if you were to hit areas with high incidence of lightning strikes, it might have broken up things to allow for some prospecting.

"New Evidence On Lightning Strikes: Mountains a Lot Less Stable Than We Think"

"Oct. 15, 2013 — Lightning strikes causing rocks to explode have for the first time been shown to play a huge role in shaping mountain landscapes in southern Africa, debunking previous assumptions that angular rock formations were necessarily caused by cold temperatures, and proving that mountains are a lot less stable than we think."
 

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