stuwinggebergten
English translation: uplifted mountains
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|  Selected response from: Frank van Thienen (X) Canada Local time: 17:34 | ||||||
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| 4 | uplifted mountains |
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| 3 | collisional mountains/mountain range |
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| 3 | push moraine |
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29 mins confidence: 
uplifted mountains Explanation: Mountains that were lifted, literally, by plate tectonic movements. These may be "Fold Mountains" or "Fault-Block Mountains" e.g. Rocky Mountains. Example sentence(s):
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain |
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48 mins confidence:
collisional mountains/mountain range Explanation: I believe this is to do with continental collision Volgens de huidige stand van de wetenschap is de ontwikkeling van de Himalaya zo’n 30 miljoen jaar geleden begonnen, toen de Indiase landmassa tegen het Euraziatische continent botste als gevolg van immense tektonische bewegingen in de afkoelende aardkorst. De Indiase schol schoof onder de Euraziatische met als gevolg het ontstaan van de Himalaya. Voor die tijd maakte het gebied waarin Nepal ligt deel uit van een oceaan, waarvan de Middellandse Zee nog een overblijfsel is. Hoog in de bergen worden dan ook ammonieten gevonden die aan toeristen worden verkocht voor enkele euro’s. De STUWING, waarvan de Himalaya het gevolg is, gaat nog steeds door en het gebergte neemt nog steeds in hoogte toe. Om deze redenen wordt Nepal ook regelmatig getroffen door aardbevingen en worden op breuklijnen aan de zuidelijke voet van de hoge bergketen warme bronnen gevonden. Dit tot grote vreugde van de daar wonende bevolking en de vermoeide trekker. http://indianepal2009.wordpress.com/nepal/ The geology of the Himalaya is a record of the most dramatic and visible creations of modern plate tectonic forces. The Himalayas, which stretch over 2400 km between the Namche Barwa syntaxis in Tibet and the Nanga Parbat syntaxis in Pakistan, are the result of an ongoing orogeny — the result of a collision between two continental tectonic plates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Himalaya Formation of an orogen is accomplished in part by the tectonic processes of subduction, where a continent rides forcefully over an oceanic plate (noncollisional orogens), or convergence of two or more continents (collisional orogens). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orogeny Collisional or Folded mountains occur when continents collide and squeeze rock layers together into accordion-like folds http://faculty.nwfsc.edu/science/stolzt/documents/MT_2.pdf |
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8 hrs confidence:
push moraine Explanation: As far as I know, the 'stuwing' in Dutch always refers to glacial action, and if the resulting feature (moraine) is a rise of land piled up at the front of a glacier it is called a called a 'push moraine'. This wouldn't form a proper 'mountain', but I'm assuming this is a 'Dutch mountain'! Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_moraine |
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