How Are Mountains Formed
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Author | : Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1995-03-31 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0064451283 |
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Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains.
Author | : B. J. Best |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2017-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502625458 |
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Mountains seem like they have been in place forever, and it can be difficult for kids to imagine how mountains were built over millions of years by processes continuing today. To make a mountain range, the Earths tectonic plates rub against or crash into each other. Kids will be interested to learn that something as seemingly steadfast as mountains can be built, and eroded away.
Author | : Cliff Ollier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134638787 |
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The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers, the present mountainous landscapes were created. It also gives evidence that this uplift only occured in the last few million years, a time scale which does not fit the plate tectonics theory. Another fascinating part of the evidence, shows that mountain uplift correlates very well with climatic change. Mountain building could have been responsible for the onset of the ice age. It certainly resulted in the creation of new environments. Fossil plants and animals are used in places to work out the time of mountain uplift, which in turn helps to explain biogeographical distributions.
Author | : Terry Allan Hicks |
Publisher | : Marshall Cavendish |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761446873 |
Download How Do Mountains Form? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Most young children are brimming with questions about the processes and events they observe at work around them every day. This new series, in which each title is in the form of a question, addresses the often mysterious phenomena of the natural world and the amazing behaviors and abilities of plants and animals. In simple, age-appropriate, easy-to-understand language, the five chapters that make up each book take the young reader on a journey of scientific discovery-from the formulation of a simple question to the revelation of the sometimes simple, sometimes startling, explanation. Bold charts, simple scientific illustrations, and dazzling four-color photography bring this process of inquiry vibrantly to life. Echoing the question-and-answer format of the series, each chapter features a challenge question to reinforce the concepts presented and to bolster reading comprehension. In addition, each book contains an activity related to the concepts learned in the text, so students can see for themselves science at work-yet another way of reinforcing the processes and phenomena central to each topic.
Author | : John Dvorak |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2021-08-03 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1643135759 |
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The incredible story of the creation of a continent—our continent— from the acclaimed author of The Last Volcano and Mask of the Sun. The immense scale of geologic time is difficult to comprehend. Our lives—and the entirety of human history—are mere nanoseconds on this timescale. Yet we hugely influenced by the land we live on. From shales and fossil fuels, from lake beds to soil composition, from elevation to fault lines, what could be more relevant that the history of the ground beneath our feet? For most of modern history, geologists could say little more about why mountains grew than the obvious: there were forces acting inside the Earth that caused mountains to rise. But what were those forces? And why did they act in some places of the planet and not at others? When the theory of plate tectonics was proposed, our concept of how the Earth worked experienced a momentous shift. As the Andes continue to rise, the Atlantic Ocean steadily widens, and Honolulu creeps ever closer to Tokyo, this seemingly imperceptible creep of the Earth is revealed in the landscape all around us. But tectonics cannot—and do not—explain everything about the wonders of the North American landscape. What about the Black Hills? Or the walls of chalk that stand amongst the rolling hills of west Kansas? Or the fact that the states of Washington and Oregon are slowly rotating clockwise, and there a diamond mine in Arizona? It all points to the geologic secrets hidden inside the 2-billion-year-old-continental masses. A whopping ten times older than the rocky floors of the ocean, continents hold the clues to the long history of our planet. With a sprightly narrative that vividly brings this science to life, John Dvorak's How the Mountains Grew will fill readers with a newfound appreciation for the wonders of the land we live on.
Author | : B. J. Best |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 2017-07-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502625474 |
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Mountains seem like they have been in place forever, and it can be difficult for kids to imagine how mountains were built over millions of years by processes continuing today. To make a mountain range, the Earths tectonic plates rub against or crash into each other. Kids will be interested to learn that something as seemingly steadfast as mountains can be built, and eroded away.
Author | : Kenneth Jinghwa Hsü |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Michael R. W. Johnson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 415 |
Release | : 2012-03-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0521765560 |
Download Orogenesis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A valuable introduction to the processes of mountain belt formation and summary of orogenic research, for advanced students and researchers.
Author | : Graham Park |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2017-11-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1780465793 |
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An explanation of how and why mountains are formed. The age, location, life cycle and key features of different mountain types are described.
Author | : Alexander Stahr |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2014-09-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3642537154 |
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This image atlas and reference book is written in simple language that can be understood by a broad audience. The work comprehensively explains the geomorphological forms of high mountains using many examples like glacial erosion forms and deposits such as moraines and gravel terraces, which are illustrated with numerous photographs. Landslide landscapes, volcanoes, weathering, and erosion are other examples discussed. These examples are from across the world, including the Himalayas, the Alps, the Andes, and the Southern Alps of New Zealand. This work is useful for laymen who are interested in geosciences, especially high-mountain landforms, as well as for students and teachers of earth sciences.