– The Lost Ocean That Helped Build Asia’s Mountain Ranges – How an Ancient Ocean Forged Asia’s Towering Peaks – Beneath the Peaks: The Ancient Sea That Shaped a Continent – When Seas Raised Mountains: The Ancient Ocean Behind Asia’s Peaks – The Ocean Unde
Long before Asia’s jagged peaks pierced the sky, a vast ocean filled the space between them – and scientists now say its vanishing act helped catapult those ranges upward, forcing a major rethink of plate tectonics and Earth’s deep-time evolution