The peak of Mount Everest is marine limestone

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Today, NASA informed me of something that I just hadn’t ever thought of.

The peak of Mount Everest (pictured below) is marine limestone.  Rock made of the skeletons of sea creatures.

Photo and more information from: http://www.nasa.gov/content/the-worlds-tallest-mountain/#.UsWruhxDvwE

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  1. David Andrews January 2, 2014 at 12:47 pm

    How long for a submerged bed of sediments to become the planet's highest peak? Geologically rather quickly. Forever through the lens of our life span's perspective.

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  2. Shawn McClure January 2, 2014 at 12:55 pm

    Very interesting… Cool share! 🙂 +Sarah Rossiter – you might be interested in this…

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  3. John Lusk January 2, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    Just like your hood buckling up when you rear-end someone. In the blink of an eye.

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  4. Dominique Walker January 2, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    Mind = Blown

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  5. Lawrence Michael January 3, 2014 at 3:54 am

    That goes for saying something for the old Tibetian legend about how they had fabulous beaches…before the Indian sub-continent pushed it up…..and Tibetans became mountain dwellers!

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  6. John Dawson January 3, 2014 at 9:09 am

    Hmm… Sea creatures on the top of Everest. I wonder how they might have floated up there. 😉

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  7. Dustin Wyatt January 3, 2014 at 10:07 am

    My guess is you're alluding to a biblical flood, which doesn't make sense as there are plenty of mountains not made of such rock. Thus a flood would have to of just flooded some mountains and not others.

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