It is not the mountain

we conquer but ourselves.”

Edmund Hillary quotes (New Zealander
mountain climber and Antarctic Explorer
Famous for being first to succesfully climb
Mount Everest b.1919)

The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a

mountain
-- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged
mountain than a thousand foothills.
Green Mountain

Green Mountain

You ask me why I live on Green Mountain ?

I smile in silence and the quiet mind.
Peach petals blow on mountain streams
To earths and skies beyond Humankind.

Translated by: A. S. Kline's

To wash and rinse our souls of their age-old sorrows,
We drained a hundred jugs of wine.
A splendid night it was . . . .
In the clear moonlight we were loath to go to bed,
But at last drunkenness overtook us;
And we laid ourselves down on the empty mountain,
The earth for pillow, and the great heaven for coverlet.
Mountains sometimes form when many
layers of the Earth's crust are moved
vertically upward at fault lines by pressures
caused by plates colliding. Fault lines are
great cracks in the crust. The mountains
that are formed in this way are called fault-
block mountains.
The Sierra Nevada mountains in California and
Nevada, and the Grand Teton range of Wyoming
are examples of fault-block mountains.
There are five ways that mountains are formed

Volcanic activity

Folding

Faulting

Dome building

Erosion
is a process in which the Earth's plates are
pushed together in a roller coaster like
series of high points and low points. Folding
bends many layers of rocks without
breaking them.

The Appalachian Mountains and Rocky

Mountains of the United States, and the
Alps of Europe are examples of mountain
ranges that were formed by folding
These are called Dome Mountains.
Dome mountains are much higher in
elevation than the surrounding land and
because of this erosion occurs at a very
fast rate.
Adirondack Mountains of New York
are low mountains that were
formed when the crust was heaved
upward without folding or faulting
Mountains are built through a general
process called "deformation" of the crust of
the Earth. Deformation is a fancy word
which could also mean "folding".

The lithospheric slab subducted, while the

force of the collision gradually causes the
slab to fold deeply. Along the way, melting
of the subducted slab leads to
volcano formation.
 Three Types of Faults

A fault is a fracture in the Earth's crust

along which motion may occur. It marks
the boundary between two plates. There
are three main types of faults.
NORMAL

In normal faulting, the hanging wall block moves

down relative to the footwall block. The fault
plane usually makes a high angle with the
surface (> 45 degrees). Normal faults are
associated with crustal tension.
A
divergent fault
occurs when
two plates
are moving
away from
each other.
When two
plates come
together, the
result is a
convergent fault
.
When two plates come together,
the result is a convergent fault.
Reverse Fault
In reverse faulting, the hanging wall block moves
up relative to the footwall block. The fault plane
usually makes a low angle with the surface (< 45
degrees). Reverse faults are associated with
crustal compression and are also known as
thrust faults.
Strike-slip Fault
In strike-slip faulting, the two blocks move either
to the left (sinistral ) or to the right (dextral)
relative to one another. Strike-slip faults are
associated with crustal shear and are also
known as wrench faults.