> What does it mean for a mountain range to be older than the continent it's on? The article doesn't seem to go deep enough into the logistics of this apparent

> What does it mean for a mountain range to be older than the continent it's on? The article doesn't seem to go deep enough into the logistics of this apparent contradiction. That’s one way that terraformation works. It’s quite normal for something like a volcano (or a bunch of volcanoes / mountain range) to form, and then for land to develop around it. This is how many islands develop, and why many islands also have a mountain. In the future the islands of Japan could become one big continent with a mountain range backbone.