Tag: Ranges

The Great Pyramids of the Great Salt Lake County: Part One — Unearthing Ancient Mysteries in Utah’s Mountain Ranges

These are likely, unidentified people, presumably more than 20,000 years old. Steward assumed some day a better-equipped group would come along and make the discovery of a lifetime, but that day never came. Contamination of the site may call any significant discovery into question. Case closed. I...

How can one relate the distribution of mountain ranges with the distribution of earthquake epicenters and volcanoes?

Most mountain ranges are built along plate boundaries where the plates are crashing together. This collision of tectonic plates can result in a crumpling of the crust (as you find in the Himalayas) or a buckling of the crust over a zone of subduction (subduction being where one tectonic plate is pus...

The Formation of Planetary Mountain Ranges and Faults

In the previous article Spatial Spectra and Fractality of Relief, Gravity Force, and Images, we have already discussed the fractality of the Earth’s relief and gravity force field, and demonstrated how it arises in the relatively thin and brittle Earth’s crust with a thickness of 5 ...