Via The Record-Courier - Geologist: Sierra growing at rapid rate, by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno
... scientific evidence from the University of Nevada, Reno, shows the entire Sierra Nevada range is rising at the relatively fast rate of 1 to 2 millimeters every year.
“The exciting thing is we can watch the range growing in real time,” University of Nevada, Reno's Bill Hammond, lead researcher on the multi-year project to track the rising range, said. “Using data back to before 2000 we can see it with accuracy better than 1 millimeter per year. Perhaps even more amazing is that these miniscule changes are measured using satellites in space.”...
