The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mountains:
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (980 ft) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges.
What type of things are mountains?
Mountains can be described as all of the following:
- Landform – natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, mountains, and the great ocean basins.
Types of mountains
Types of groups of mountains
- Cordillera
- Inselberg field
- Hügelland
- Monogenetic volcanic field
- Mountain range
- Polygenetic volcanic field
- Undulating hilly land [1]
Features of mountains
Specific mountains
History of mountains
Mountain geology
- Geology of the Alps
- Geology of the Appalachians
- Geology of the Ellsworth Mountains
- Geology of the Himalayas
- Geology of the Pyrenees
- Geology of the Rocky Mountains
- Geology of the Western Carpathians
- Mountain formation
Ecology of mountains
- Montane ecosystems
- Alpine climate
- Alpine plant
- Alpine storms
- Altiplano
- Altitudinal zonation
- Life zones of central Europe
- Climate of Peru
- Continental divide
- Couloir
- Fellfield
- Fir wave
- Firn
- Freezing level
- Glacial stream
- Glacier
- Hill people
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
- Krummholz
- List of life zones by region
- Life zones of Peru
- Life zones of the Mediterranean region
- Montane grasslands and shrublands
- Mountain pass
- Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
- Ecology of the North Cascades
- Páramo
- Permafrost
- Quechua (geography)
- Retreat of glaciers since 1850
- Ridge
- Rupa-Rupa
- Scree
- Sky island
- Snow line
- Subglacial stream
- Suni (geography)
- Syngenetic permafrost growth
- Tibetan Plateau
- Tierra fría
- Tierra helada
- Tierra templada
- Tree line
- Yukon Ice Patches
- Yungas
Persons influential in mountains
See also
References
- ^ Lidmar-Bergström, Karna (1995). "Relief and saprolites through time on the Baltic Shield". Geomorphology. 12 (1): 45–61. Bibcode: 1995Geomo..12...45L. doi: 10.1016/0169-555X(94)00076-4.
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to mountains:
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (980 ft) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges.
What type of things are mountains?
Mountains can be described as all of the following:
- Landform – natural feature of the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Typical landforms include hills, mountains, plateaus, canyons, valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, mountains, and the great ocean basins.
Types of mountains
Types of groups of mountains
- Cordillera
- Inselberg field
- Hügelland
- Monogenetic volcanic field
- Mountain range
- Polygenetic volcanic field
- Undulating hilly land [1]
Features of mountains
Specific mountains
History of mountains
Mountain geology
- Geology of the Alps
- Geology of the Appalachians
- Geology of the Ellsworth Mountains
- Geology of the Himalayas
- Geology of the Pyrenees
- Geology of the Rocky Mountains
- Geology of the Western Carpathians
- Mountain formation
Ecology of mountains
- Montane ecosystems
- Alpine climate
- Alpine plant
- Alpine storms
- Altiplano
- Altitudinal zonation
- Life zones of central Europe
- Climate of Peru
- Continental divide
- Couloir
- Fellfield
- Fir wave
- Firn
- Freezing level
- Glacial stream
- Glacier
- Hill people
- International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
- Krummholz
- List of life zones by region
- Life zones of Peru
- Life zones of the Mediterranean region
- Montane grasslands and shrublands
- Mountain pass
- Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve
- Ecology of the North Cascades
- Páramo
- Permafrost
- Quechua (geography)
- Retreat of glaciers since 1850
- Ridge
- Rupa-Rupa
- Scree
- Sky island
- Snow line
- Subglacial stream
- Suni (geography)
- Syngenetic permafrost growth
- Tibetan Plateau
- Tierra fría
- Tierra helada
- Tierra templada
- Tree line
- Yukon Ice Patches
- Yungas
Persons influential in mountains
See also
References
- ^ Lidmar-Bergström, Karna (1995). "Relief and saprolites through time on the Baltic Shield". Geomorphology. 12 (1): 45–61. Bibcode: 1995Geomo..12...45L. doi: 10.1016/0169-555X(94)00076-4.
External links
Mountains at Wikipedia's
sister projects
-
Definitions from Wiktionary
-
Media from Commons
-
News from Wikinews
-
Quotations from Wikiquote
-
Texts from Wikisource
-
Textbooks from Wikibooks
-
Resources from Wikiversity