Mountains 1st Edition by Peter Aleshire, Geoffrey Nash ISBN 978-0816059188 0816059187
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ISBN 10: 0816059187
ISBN 13: 978-0816059188
Author: Peter Aleshire, Geoffrey H. Nash
Table of contents:
Origin of the Landform: Mountains
The Formation of Mountains Ten Mountains
1 Mount Everest, Asia
A Mountain of Storms Mount Everest Facts More Deaths on the Mountain Measuring the Himalayas The Roots of the Mountain The Mallory Mystery
2 Appalachians, North America
A Mountain of Mystery The Sections of the Appalachians Agreeing on the Wrong Theory Rejected Theory Triumphs Origins of the Appalachians Geography Shapes History Mount Mitchell and Elisha
The Appalachians’s Mountain-building Periods
3 The Alps, Europe
Alps Reveal Deep Secrets Breaking Up Is Hard to Do Hypererosion Sets In
Glaciers Apply Finishing Touch Hannibal Succumbs to Geography
4+ Mid-Atlantic Ridge, North Atlantic
Mid-Atlantic Ridge Validates Theory
World’s Greatest Mountain Chain Iceland Confirms Hot Spot Theory The People of Mount Hekla Volcano Threatens Town
5 The Sierra Nevada, California, the Western United States
A Series of Unfortunate Events Mountains Reveal Continent’s History
Yosemite: Wonderland of Granite
Glaciers Suppress Volcanoes Ice Ages Sculpt Rocks Heartbreaking Loss of the Second Yosemite Lake Tahoe Warming Up
6 The Andes, South America
The Andes’s Strangest Lake Abrupt Rise Poses Mystery
Mystery Linked to the Mantle
The Inca Build a Complex Civilization Worship
The Inca Create Mountaintop Civilization Glaciers and Climate Change
7 Mauna Kea, Hawaii’s High Point, Pacific Ocean
A Molten Mythology
The Best-studied Hot Spot
Yellowstone Hot Spot: A Titanic Explosion
A Volcanic Landscape
Mauna Kea: The Tallest Mountain The First Hawaiians
8 Mount Saint Helens, Northwestern United States
Cascades: Edge of a Crustal Plate Effects of Mount Saint Helens Eruption
A Violent History
An Explosive History of Mount Saint Helens
Cascades Support Plate Tectonics Volcanic Mountains of the Cascades
9 Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa
The Shining Mountain
Glaciers in Full Retreat
Mountain Makes Its Own Weather
Kilimanjaro Life Zones
Great Rift Valley Shapes Continent
Age of Exploration
Mount Kenya
10 Humphreys Peak, Arizona, North America
Building a Mountain, One Eruption at a Time
Sunset Crater Phrase
The Unexpected Benefits of Disaster
Clues to a Vanished People
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