Recent research has focused on various types of pile foundations, including rock-socketed piles, double-belled piles, and under-reamed piles, to better understand their behavior under uplift loads.

The main process causing uplift of rocks, influencing the height of Everest and Makalu, is tectonics: The thrusting of plates causes topography. Fox said the team did not disentangle competing ...

Research has shown the complex history behind this gap of missing time, and theories range from the break-up of an ancient supercontinent, causing tectonic uplift ... of rock strata were carved ...