Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

Why does this article have a picture of the Maroon Bells? As opposed to something along Green River or, ideally, the 700m deep canyon being described?

For people interested in the subject generally I highly recommend John McPhee's anthology "Annals of the Former World." Actually I highly recommend everything John McPhee has written but this is a good start :).

The invisible hand of the lithospheric drip

Fascinating to think of entire mountain ranges moving up and down like the skin on a wobbly pudding.

The actual paper (open access): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

What about ice pressing down? The repeated glaciations might have pushed in area down and back up several times over 6 million years. Might have even caused that drip to break off.

Can we take a moment to appreciate that Dr. Adam Smith works at the University of Glasgow?