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The Origin of Mountains

By: Cliff Ollier, Colin Pain

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Paperback | 24 August 2000 | Edition Number 1

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The Origins of Mountains approaches mountains from facts about mountain landscapes rather than theory. The book illustrates that almost everywhere, mountains arose by vertical uplift of a former plain, and by a mixture of cracking and warping by earth movements, and erosion by rivers and glaciers, the present mountainous landscapes were created. It also gives evidence that this uplift only occured in the last few million years, a time scale which does not fit the plate tectonics theory.
Another fascinating part of the evidence, shows that mountain uplift correlates very well with climatic change. Mountain building could have been responsible for the onset of the ice age. It certainly resulted in the creation of new environments. Fossil plants and animals are used in places to work out the time of mountain uplift, which in turn helps to explain biogeographical distributions.

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List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. xv
Preface	p. xvi
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Simple plateaus and erosional mountains	p. 21
Fault block mountains	p. 41
European mountains	p. 60
Western North America	p. 96
The Andes	p. 112
Asian mountains	p. 128
Mountains with gravity structures	p. 150
Volcanoes and granite mountains	p. 168
Mountains on passive margins	p. 193
Plains and planation surfaces, drainage and climate	p. 227
Problems of mountain tectonics	p. 271
Science and the origin of mountains	p. 311
References	p. 316
Index	p. 336
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