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Click on the picture in this to see the flows - http://formontana.net/triple.html. Wendy is below Triple Divide Peak that sweeps up into Norris Mountain.
While I was researching I found this interesting question:
Why are world’s highest mountains at the equator?
Ice and glacier coverage at lower altitudes in cold climates is more important than collision of tectonic plates. [Glacial erosion is very strong because of huge boulders of rocks carried by the glacial ice that graze the surface. Though ice moves only few meters a day, it can take along it huge rocks that can peal the outer layers.]
Scientists have solved the mystery of why the world’s highest mountains sit near the equator.
Colder climates are better at eroding peaks. In colder climates, the snowline on mountains starts lower down, and erosion takes place at lower altitudes.
In general, mountains only rise to around 1,500m above their snow lines, so it is the altitude of these lines — which depends on climate and latitude — which ultimately decides their height.
At low latitudes, the atmosphere is warm and the snowline is high. Around the equator, the snowline is about 5,500m at its highest so mountains get up to 7,000m.
There are a few exceptions [that are higher], such as Everest, but extremely few.
When you then go to Canada or Chile, the snowline altitude is around 1,000m, so the mountains are around 2.5km.
While I was researching I found this interesting question:
Why are world’s highest mountains at the equator?
Ice and glacier coverage at lower altitudes in cold climates is more important than collision of tectonic plates. [Glacial erosion is very strong because of huge boulders of rocks carried by the glacial ice that graze the surface. Though ice moves only few meters a day, it can take along it huge rocks that can peal the outer layers.]
Scientists have solved the mystery of why the world’s highest mountains sit near the equator.
Colder climates are better at eroding peaks. In colder climates, the snowline on mountains starts lower down, and erosion takes place at lower altitudes.
In general, mountains only rise to around 1,500m above their snow lines, so it is the altitude of these lines — which depends on climate and latitude — which ultimately decides their height.
At low latitudes, the atmosphere is warm and the snowline is high. Around the equator, the snowline is about 5,500m at its highest so mountains get up to 7,000m.
There are a few exceptions [that are higher], such as Everest, but extremely few.
When you then go to Canada or Chile, the snowline altitude is around 1,000m, so the mountains are around 2.5km.