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164 relations: Adiabatic process, Agriculture, Alexandria, Virginia, Alpine climate, Alps, Altitudinal zonation, American Geosciences Institute, Andes, Anticline, Arête, Asia, Balkan Mountains, Basin and Range Province, Bedrock, Biological dispersal, Bolivia, Bon, Broad-leaved tree, Buddhism, Catskill Mountains, Chimborazo, Cirque, Climate model, Cloud, Conifer, Continental crust, Convection, Crust (geology), Death zone, Denali, Dew point, Dome (geology), Dormancy, Earth's crust, East Africa, Ecuador, El Alto, Elevation, Enthalpy of vaporization, Erosion, Fault (geology), Fault block, Figure of the Earth, Fold (geology), Fold mountains, Geopolitics, Glacier, Graben, Greece, Greenhouse effect, ... Expand index (114 more) »
- Earth's crust
- Mountains
Adiabatic process
An adiabatic process (adiabatic) is a type of thermodynamic process that occurs without transferring heat or mass between the thermodynamic system and its environment.
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Agriculture
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.
Alexandria, Virginia
Alexandria is an independent city in the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States.
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Alpine climate
Alpine climate is the typical climate for elevations above the tree line, where trees fail to grow due to cold.
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Alps
The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.
Altitudinal zonation
Altitudinal zonation (or elevational zonation) in mountainous regions describes the natural layering of ecosystems that occurs at distinct elevations due to varying environmental conditions.
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American Geosciences Institute
The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is a nonprofit federation of about 50 geoscientific and professional organizations that represents geologists, geophysicists, and other earth scientists.
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
Anticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core, whereas a syncline is the inverse of an anticline.
Arête
An arête is a narrow ridge of rock that separates two valleys.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Balkan Mountains
The Balkan mountain range is located in the eastern part of the Balkans in Southeastern Europe.
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Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Bedrock
In geology, bedrock is solid rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet. Mountain and bedrock are Earth's crust.
Biological dispersal
Biological dispersal refers to both the movement of individuals (animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.) from their birth site to their breeding site ('natal dispersal'), as well as the movement from one breeding site to another ('breeding dispersal').
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Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
Bon
Bon or Bön, also known as Yungdrung Bon, is the indigenous Tibetan religion which shares many similarities and influences with Tibetan Buddhism.
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Broad-leaved tree
A broad-leaved, broad-leaf, or broadleaf tree is any tree within the diverse botanical group of angiosperms that has flat leaves and produces seeds inside of fruits.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Catskill Mountains
The Catskill Mountains, also known as the Catskills, are a physiographic province and subrange of the larger Appalachian Mountains, located in southeastern New York.
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Chimborazo
Chimborazo is an inactive stratovolcano situated in Ecuador in the Cordillera Occidental range of the Andes.
Cirque
A (from the Latin word) is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion.
Climate model
Numerical climate models (or climate system models) are mathematical models that can simulate the interactions of important drivers of climate.
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Cloud
In meteorology, a cloud is an aerosol consisting of a visible mass of miniature liquid droplets, frozen crystals, or other particles suspended in the atmosphere of a planetary body or similar space.
Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks that forms the geological continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves. Mountain and continental crust are Earth's crust.
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Convection
Convection is single or multiphase fluid flow that occurs spontaneously due to the combined effects of material property heterogeneity and body forces on a fluid, most commonly density and gravity (see buoyancy).
Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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Death zone
In mountaineering, the death zone refers to altitudes above a certain point where the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an extended time span.
Denali
Denali (also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level.
Dew point
The dew point of a given body of air is the temperature to which it must be cooled to become saturated with water vapor.
Dome (geology)
A dome is a feature in structural geology where a circular part of the Earth's surface has been pushed upward, tilting the pre-existing layers of earth away from the center.
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Dormancy
Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped.
Earth's crust
Earth's crust is its thick outer shell of rock, referring to less than one percent of the planet's radius and volume.
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East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
El Alto
El Alto (Spanish for "The Heights") is the second-largest city in Bolivia, located adjacent to La Paz in Pedro Domingo Murillo Province on the Altiplano highlands.
Elevation
The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).
Enthalpy of vaporization
In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of vaporization (symbol), also known as the (latent) heat of vaporization or heat of evaporation, is the amount of energy (enthalpy) that must be added to a liquid substance to transform a quantity of that substance into a gas.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Mountain and fault (geology) are Earth's crust.
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Fault block
Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in Earth's crust.
Figure of the Earth
In geodesy, the figure of the Earth is the size and shape used to model planet Earth.
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Fold (geology)
In structural geology, a fold is a stack of originally planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, that are bent or curved ("folded") during permanent deformation.
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Fold mountains
Fold mountains are formed by the effects of folding on layers within the upper part of the Earth's crust.
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Geopolitics
Geopolitics is the study of the effects of Earth's geography (human and physical) on politics and international relations.
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults.
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
Greenhouse effect
The greenhouse effect occurs when greenhouse gases in a planet's atmosphere insulate the planet from losing heat to space, raising its surface temperature.
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Harvest
Harvesting is the process of collecting plants, animals, or fish (as well as fungi) as food, especially the process of gathering mature crops, and "the harvest" also refers to the collected crops.
Hawaii
Hawaii (Hawaii) is an island state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland.
Height above mean sea level
Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level. Mountain and Height above mean sea level are geography terminology.
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Hill
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain.
Hill people
Hill people, also referred to as mountain people, is a general term for people who live in the hills and mountains.
Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hobby
A hobby is considered to be a regular activity that is done for enjoyment, typically during one's leisure time.
Hoboken, New Jersey
Hoboken (Unami: Hupokàn) is a city in Hudson County in the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Holdridge life zones
The Holdridge life zones system is a global bioclimatic scheme for the classification of land areas.
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Horst (geology)
In physical geography and geology, a horst is a raised fault block bounded by normal faults.
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Hotspot (geology)
In geology, hotspots (or hot spots) are volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle.
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Huascarán
Huascarán (Quechua: Waskaran), Nevado Huascarán or Mataraju is a mountain located in Yungay Province, Department of Ancash, Peru.
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
Ice
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice.
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Igneous rock
Igneous rock, or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic.
Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
Irish Catholics
Irish Catholics (Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland whose members are both Catholic and Irish.
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Isostasy
Isostasy (Greek ''ísos'' 'equal', ''stásis'' 'standstill') or isostatic equilibrium is the state of gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust (or lithosphere) and mantle such that the crust "floats" at an elevation that depends on its thickness and density. Mountain and Isostasy are Earth's crust.
Jainism
Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion.
Jura Mountains
The Jura Mountains are a sub-alpine mountain range a short distance north of the Western Alps and mainly demarcate a long part of the French–Swiss border.
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K2
K2, at above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at.
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La Rinconada, Peru
La Rinconada is a town in the Peruvian Andes near a gold mine.
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Landscape
A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.
Lapse rate
The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere, falls with altitude.
Latitude
In geography, latitude is a coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the surface of the Earth or another celestial body.
Leslie Holdridge
Leslie Ransselaer Holdridge (September 29, 1907 – June 19, 1999) was an American botanist and climatologist.
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List of mountain peaks by prominence
This is a list of mountain peaks ordered by their topographic prominence.
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List of mountain ranges
This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.
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List of ski areas and resorts
This is a list of ski areas and resorts around the world.
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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
This is a list of the tallest mountains in the Solar System.
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Lists of mountains
Mountains are listed according to various criteria. Mountain and lists of mountains are mountains.
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Logging
Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport.
Magma
Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed. Mountain and Magma are Earth's crust.
Mantle (geology)
A mantle is a layer inside a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
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Mass wasting
Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity.
Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea (abbreviation for Mauna a Wākea); is an inactive shield volcano on the island of Hawaiokinai.
Mauna Loa
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.
Mid-ocean ridge
A mid-ocean ridge (MOR) is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
Montane ecosystems
Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.
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Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat (Ararat) or Masis (Մասիս) also known as Mount Agirî (Kurdish: Çiyayê Agirî) and Mount Ağrı (Turkish: Ağrı Dağı), is a snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in Eastern Turkey.
Mount Brandon
Mount Brandon or Brandon, at, is one of the ten highest peaks in Ireland, being the 8th–highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin list, and the 9th–highest on the Vandeleur-Lynam list.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
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Mount Fuji
is an active stratovolcano located on the Japanese island of Honshu, with a summit elevation of.
Mount Kailash
Mount Kailash (also Kailasa; Kangrinboqê or Gang Rinpoche; གངས་རིན་པོ་ཆེ;; कैलास) is a mountain in Ngari Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.
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Mount Logan
Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali.
Mount Olympus
Mount Olympus (Ólympos) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about southwest from Thessaloniki.
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Mount Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon island of the Philippines.
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Mountain formation
Mountain formation refers to the geological processes that underlie the formation of mountains. Mountain and mountain formation are mountains.
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Mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. Mountain and mountain range are mountains.
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Mountaineering
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountain and Mountaineering are mountains.
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Nanda Devi
Nanda Devi is the second-highest mountain in India, after Kangchenjunga, and the highest located entirely within the country.
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat (نانگا پربت), known locally as Diamer, is the ninth-highest mountain on Earth and its summit is at above sea level.
National park
A national park is a nature park designated for conservation purposes because of unparalleled national natural, historic, or cultural significance.
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Natural border
A natural border is a border between states or their subdivisions which is concomitant with natural formations such as rivers or mountain ranges.
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Navajo Mountain
Navajo Mountain (Naatsisʼáán meaning "Earth Head") is a peak in San Juan County, Utah, with its southern flank extending into Coconino County, Arizona, in the United States.
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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark (תיבת נח; Biblical Hebrew: Tevat Noaḥ)The word "ark" in modern English comes from Old English aerca, meaning a chest or box.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Olympus Mons
Olympus Mons (Mount Olympus) is a large shield volcano on Mars.
Orogeny
Orogeny is a mountain-building process that takes place at a convergent plate margin when plate motion compresses the margin.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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PeerJ
PeerJ is an open access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage is a journey to a holy place, which can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim returns to their daily life.
Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics is the scientific theory that Earth's lithosphere comprises a number of large tectonic plates, which have been slowly moving since 3–4 billion years ago. Mountain and plate tectonics are Earth's crust.
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Plateau
In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.
Precipitation
In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.
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Profession
A profession is a field of work that has been successfully professionalized.
Pyramidal peak
A pyramidal peak, sometimes called a glacial horn in extreme cases, is an angular, sharply pointed mountain peak which results from the cirque erosion due to multiple glaciers diverging from a central point. Mountain and pyramidal peak are mountains.
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Radiation
In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium.
Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
Rift valley
A rift valley is a linear shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges produced by the action of a geologic rift.
River
A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.
Rock (geology)
In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven traditional continents. Mountain and seven Summits are mountains.
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Shield volcano
A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground.
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Ski resort
A ski resort is a resort developed for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter sports.
Skiing
Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow for basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport.
Sky island
Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by radically different lowland environments.
Slump (geology)
A slump is a form of mass wasting that occurs when a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
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Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
Sport
Sport is a form of physical activity or game.
Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it.
Summit cross
A summit cross (Gipfelkreuz) is a Christian cross on the summit of a mountain or hill that marks the top.
Syncline
In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline.
Tibet Autonomous Region
The Tibet Autonomous Region, officially the Xizang Autonomous Region, often shortened to Tibet or Xizang, is an autonomous region of China and is part of Southwestern China.
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Topographic prominence
In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.
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Tourism
Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.
Trafford
Trafford is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, with an estimated population of in.
Tree line
The tree line is the edge of a habitat at which trees are capable of growing and beyond which they are not.
Tundra
In physical geography, tundra is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons.
Twelve Olympians
relief (1st century BCendash1st century AD) depicting the twelve Olympians carrying their attributes in procession; from left to right: Hestia (scepter), Hermes (winged cap and staff), Aphrodite (veiled), Ares (helmet and spear), Demeter (scepter and wheat sheaf), Hephaestus (staff), Hera (scepter), Poseidon (trident), Athena (owl and helmet), Zeus (thunderbolt and staff), Artemis (bow and quiver) and Apollo (lyre) from the Walters Art Museum.Walters Art Museum, http://art.thewalters.org/detail/38764 accession number 23.40.
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Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
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United States Board on Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the United States government whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Upper Rhine Plain
The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: Oberrheinische Tiefebene, Oberrheinisches Tiefland or Oberrheingraben, French: Vallée du Rhin) is a major rift, about and on average, between Basel in the south and the cities of Frankfurt/Wiesbaden in the north.
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Visible spectrum
The visible spectrum is the band of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.
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Volcanism
Volcanism, vulcanism, volcanicity, or volcanic activity is the phenomenon where solids, liquids, gases, and their mixtures erupt to the surface of a solid-surface astronomical body such as a planet or a moon.
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Vosges
The Vosges (Vogesen; Franconian and Vogese) are a range of medium mountains in Eastern France, near its border with Germany.
Weathering
Weathering is the deterioration of rocks, soils and minerals (as well as wood and artificial materials) through contact with water, atmospheric gases, sunlight, and biological organisms.
West Margin Press
West Margin Press is a book publishing company.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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See also
Earth's crust
- Abundance of elements in Earth's crust
- Anderson's theory of faulting
- Bedrock
- Brittle–ductile transition zone
- Conrad discontinuity
- Continental crust
- Diastrophism
- Earth's crust
- Earth's crustal evolution
- Earthquakes
- Enrichment factor
- Fault (geology)
- Fossil fuels
- Isostasy
- Kola Superdeep Borehole
- Magma
- Metamorphic rock
- Mineral processing
- Mohorovičić discontinuity
- Mountain
- Mozambique Belt
- Oceanic crust
- Plate tectonics
- Pressure ridge
- Project Mohole
- Sand
- Sima (geology)
- Volcanoes
Mountains
- Conical hill
- Cordillera
- Couloir
- Crag and tail
- Extremes on Earth
- Fell
- Freezing level
- Gendarme (mountaineering)
- Highlands
- International Mountain Society
- Island range
- Kames
- Line parent
- List of mountain types
- Lists of mountains
- Massif
- Montane ecology
- Mountain
- Mountain Day
- Mountain Partnership
- Mountain breeze and valley breeze
- Mountain chain
- Mountain formation
- Mountain jet
- Mountain passes
- Mountain railways
- Mountain range
- Mountain ranges
- Mountain rescue
- Mountain research
- Mountain river
- Mountain warfare
- Mountaineering
- Nunatak
- Nunataks
- Precordillera
- Promontories
- Promontory
- Pyramidal peak
- Ridge
- Rimrock
- Seven Summits
- Tableland
- Thirteener
- Ultra-prominent peak
References
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