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Questions regarding large land masses that reach high above the surrounding terrain, usually forming a peak.

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I have been examining Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery of an area located on the island of Borneo in Indonesia near 0.04918° S, 116.530° E with an area of 38.60 km2 ...
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I was looking at a site in Fordow nuclear facility (an Iranian uranium enrichment facility) using Google Earth and I found so many spots on the mountain near it (34.882956°N, 50.992197°E). I used the ...
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I am looking for exact term which is used to refer to concave side of mountain. I did some research and got following information, but they resemble in some degree of closeness (not exactly) that I am ...
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The Blue Ridge Mountains in the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia are the highest mountain range in eastern mainland North America. But unlike the slightly lower White Mountains in New Hampshire and ...
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Is there a flat area on top where you can walk around? How many people can fit? Or does it just come to a point like the top of a triangle, where you do nothing but peek over the other side of the ...
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The geological border between the Alps and the Apennines is identified at the Bocchetta Pass in the hinterland of Genoa (Italy). This does not coincide with the geographical border, located further ...
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I hear both statements from time to time: that either Mt McKinley (Denali) or Kilimanjaro are Earth's tallest mountain from vale to summit, about 18,000 ft (5,500 m) elevation difference. Is there a ...
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This Reddit post has a YouTube video that says there is a "Valley of Eternal Spring" in Yunguilla, Ecuador. But searching on the web for the name of the valley mostly gives results about the ...
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Of the top 100 tallest mountains of the world, the vast majority of them are located in Asia.
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I think 100 kilometers height is enough to make an some kind of space-mountain base-factory there and it seems to be cheeper to transport resourses there then to usual space stations. I am interesting ...
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I would like to know if it is possible that the electrical potential difference between the Windward side and the Leeward side of a mountain range, due to a thunderstorm occurring on the Windward side,...
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It is a well-known fact that Mount Everest, a Himalayan mountain whose summit stands at an elevation of $8,848.86 \text{ m }(29,031.7\text{ ft})$ above mean sea level, is currently the tallest ...
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I’m currently reading John McPhee’s Annals of the Former World, which is discussing plate tectonics. He often gives figures for uplifts at subduction zones measured in tens of thousands of feet. This ...
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I have been studying mountain formation, and have some questions about how orogeny and plate stress release are related... Does orogeny contribute to the release of accumulated stress within the ...
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Wikipedia article says about the Gotthard Base Tunnel: "It is the deepest railway tunnel in the world, with a maximum depth of 2,450 m (8,040 ft), comparable to that of the deepest mines on Earth....
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