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A glacier begins high in mountain valleys in places such as Alaska, New Zealand, and in the polar regions – the Arctic and Antarctic. Tropical glaciers also form across continents such as Africa, and in mountain ranges including the Himalayas. Unfortunately these types of glaciers have been thi...
Precipitation is moisture falling to the ground in the form of rain, snow or ice. Mountains have two major effects called the orographic effect, which causes clouds and precipitation to form on one side of the mountain, and the rain shadow effect, which is a drier area on the opposite side...
[#highlight9]Extensive[/highlight9] mountain ranges were formed from compression of the crust, forming long ridges with parallel valleys spaced one to two kilometers apart. In some places older impact craters were split and pulled apart. There are even indications of large-scale crustal ...
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The topography of an area also helps determine the climate. This is because ofocean currents that carry masses of warm or cool air to coastal locations. ... Areas near oceans and large lakes have smaller temperature ranges than landlocked, or continental, areas. ...
and its eastern end- the Greater Ranges, and they are connected by a long chain of other mountains in the middle- the Balkans, the mountains in the Minor Asia, and the mountains of Iran. Let this Belt be our “entrance” from west into the Greater Ranges. Its first high mountain range...
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