Articles about "mountains"
Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains stretch through western North America from Alaska to New Mexico, forming the middle section of the Western Cordillera, an extensive belt ...
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountain Range is an ancient band of mountains that stretches in a southwestern arc from the Canadian province of Newfoundland to central ...
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Alpine / Montane Ecosystems
Mountains are masses of rock that have been pushed upward, high above the ... Mountains provide habitat for a wide range of terrestrial animals including ...
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What is an Altitudinal Vegetation Zone?
Vegetation on mountains varies with altitude in response to changes in local ... As you move up a mountain, you travel along a mosaic of gradients (climate, ...
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What is a Rain Shadow?
Winds carry air masses up and over the mountain range and as the air is driven upward over the mountain, falling temperatures cause the air to lose much of ...
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Highest Mountains
A list of the higest mountains in the world, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
http://geography.about.com/od/learnabouttheearth/a/extremes.htm
China's Four Buddhist Holy Mountains - Four Sacred Buddhist ...
China has four mountains that Buddhists believe are holy. Wonderful places to go hiking, see active Buddhist monasteries and temples, a pilgrimage to one or ...
http://gochina.about.com/od/whattosee/p/4BuddhistMts.htm
Catskills - Lodging and Fun in the Catskills - Catskills
Winter in the Catskills means skiing at Belleayre, Hunter, and Windham mountains. (Spring in the Catskills is mud season, and best avoided.) ...
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2006 Tour de France - Stage 11 climb
The grueling mountain phases through the Alps and Pyrenees are what really test the riders, and have produced some of the most legendary feats of the Tour. ...
http://bicycling.about.com/od/tourdefrance2007/ig/Images-of-the-Tour-de-France/71432000.htm
The Rise of Erosion
Thus mountain-building, which exposes rocks to erosion both ordinary and ... Another recent Geology paper suggests that the northern Coast Mountains of ...
http://geology.about.com/od/structureslandforms/a/newerosion.htm
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