Mountains

Tobacco Root Mountains, Montana

Meta-ultramafi c rocks occur as small (2 to 100 m long), podiform bodies in all three major Precambrian rock suites of the Tobacco Root Mountains of southwest Montana. Most samples consist of a randomly oriented, coarse-grained assemblage of orthopyroxene, olivine, and magnesiohornblende ± spinel, partially replaced by a fi ne-grained assemblage that may include anthophyllite, talc, cummingtoni...

Mole Hills from Mountains

How Erosion Builds Mountains

massive than all human structures combined and are sculpted in greater detail than a Baroque palace. The world’s tallest pinnacle—Mount Everest in the Himalayas— reaches 8,848 meters, or about 15 times higher than anything people have ever built. Not surprisingly, such spectacular topography has evoked awe and inspired artists and adventurers throughout human existence. Recent research has led ...

Mountains: top down.

Mountainous regions offer not only essential habitat and resources, including water, to the earth's more than 6 billion inhabitants, but also insights into how the global human habitat works, how it is being changed at the moment as global climates are disrupted, and how the disruption may lead to global biotic and economic impoverishment. At least 600 million of the earth's more than 6 billion...

Speculating about Mountains

The definition of the weak slope of continuous functions introduced by Degiovanni and Marzocchi (cf. [8]) and its interrelation with the notion “steepness” of locally Lipschitz functions are discussed. A deformation lemma and a mountain pass theorem for usco mappings are proved. The relation between these results and the respective ones for lower semicontinuous functions (cf. [7]) is considered...