Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth

Mountains: Masterworks of the Living Earth
ISBN-10
0810930838
ISBN-13
9780810930834
Series
Mountains
Category
Photography / General
Pages
319
Language
English
Published
2007-01-02
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Authors
Kevin Kling, Paul Tapponnier

Description

From the Himalayas and the Andes to the little-known Altays of Central Asia, mountains are objects of admiration, awe and legend. Mountains: Wonders of the Natural World tours the world's mountain ranges and reveals the origins - and futures - of these natural wonders. Beginning with the tremendous forces that create and develop mountains, the books explores the secrets of a mountain's endurance against erosive wind, rain and snow, as well as the fate of a mountain in the twilight of its existence, millions of years after its formation. The book firstly discusses the most interesting ranges now in the world, the Himalayas. These are young, growing mountains and natural phenomenon like Tsunami 2004 and South Asia Earth Quake 2005 are actively making them grow. Secondly, the book explains different mountain landscapes like plateaus, volcanoes, etc, and shows how mountains 'die'. This is what has happened to the Rockies and the Alps, where the activity in the earth is dead and glaciers are eating them away. mountains, again mostly in the Himalayas, because there you can find places and habits that have virtually remained untouched for centuries.

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