>>"hehe I repeat le epic big bong theroy maymay I em so smaret"
Who are you quoting?
Geology and Physics
Zachary Cruz
Wyatt Campbell
Your mom
Logan Bennett
>Earth mountains can never be as tall as Mons Olympus.
>>talkingphysics.wordpress.com
>The absolute limit is when rock begins to crack under its own weight. Mars has only about 1/3rd of Earth's gravitation, so mountains can be 3 times taller there.
>In addition, Mars is desiccated. Water acts as a lubricant and weakens rocks, allowing them to slip. Oklahoma started experiencing daily earthquakes when oil companies began injected water into the ground to "frack".
>Finally, Earth has weather which wears away even rock in time.
>Mons Olympus got so large because Mars' crust is rigid. It doesn't have moving continental plates. On Earth, the Hawaiian islands formed one-after-another as the crust moved over an underlying "hot spot". On Mars, Mons Olympus stayed in place over such a spot indefinitely.
Thanks for pointing out the flaws in my uninformed post, I appreciate it user.