"Mountain building is not obvious.. "

 Certainly isn't .. (Hi Andrew).  [*Link death noted 20170919*.]  . 
( .. But what keeps making the Earth flatter (and smoother) than it used to be, is .. )

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"Building"? .... What is it about mountains that gets 'built'? If mountains are really eroded plateaus (link.) and volcanoes, why does the term ["mountain building"] pervade the literature so to describe these landforms?   [56,200 - 20170919]

Fig.  1.  Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa.   A classic example of the way in which rock layers of one sort and another are piled one on top of the other to build mountains. No? That's not how mountains are built? ..

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