How do you destroy mountains.
Particularly mountains that are mostly submerged already.
Maybe the author was just going for the dramatic.
One tectonic plate slipped out from under another, and in doing so, displaced a considerable amount of the overlying mantle, allowing a great deal of heat from the earth’s interior to escape, warming the ocean in a way that mankind, with all its concentrated technology and single-minded determination, could not possibly achieve.
It probably also thrust up the Sierra Moutain range, creating the Great Salt Lake Basin, which was once an arm of the sea.
The Great Salt Lake is simply the remaining puddle of that once huge sea that arced out across what is now northern California, Washington State and Oregon.
**How do you destroy mountains.**
An old book written or published around 1968 showed the “lost” continent of MU, or Lemuria. A mountain range over a series of caverns. when one end of the mountain range erupted, pressure in the other caverns was releaved and the other mountains collapsed into the caverns.
No one takes the MU books seriously.