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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Despite the absence of any recent tectonic activity in the area, one region of the Appalachian Mountains looks vastly different from its surroundings, leading a team of US researchers to conclude that the location had undergone a transformation they refer to as a “geological facelift.” Sean Gallen, a graduate student in marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at North Carolina State University, and Karl Wegmann, an assistant...

Mountain belts on Earth are most commonly formed by collision of one or more tectonic plates. The process of collision, uplift, and subsequent erosion of long mountain belts often produces profound global effects, including changes in regional and global climates, as well as the formation of important economic resources, including oil and gas reservoirs and ore deposits. Understanding the formation of mountain belts is thus a very important element of earth science research. One common but...

Summit, N.J. woman reaches new heights -- Kilimanjaro -- in fitness and obesity battle. Amazing video footage from Big Fat Mountain documentary: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bigfatmountain/big-fat-mountain Summit, NJ (PRWEB) February 15, 2012 Kara Richardson Whitely has taken her uphill battle against obesity to great heights – Mount Kilimanjaro -- and is sharing her story with a documentary called Big Fat Mountain. The 37-year-old Summit, N.J. woman hiked Africa’s highest...

In one of his songs Bob Dylan asks "How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?", and thus poses an intriguing geological question for which an accurate answer is not easily provided. Mountain ranges are in a constant interplay between climatically controlled weathering processes on the one hand and the tectonic forces that cause folding and thrusting and thus thickening of the Earth's crust on the other hand. While erosion eventually erases any geological...

During Mount Kilimanjaro ascent highlights risks of high altitude climbsFormer tennis champion Martina Navratilova was hospitalized for pulmonary edema"”fluid build-up in the lungs"”while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, drawing attention to the high risk of acute mountain sickness (AMS) and high altitude pulmonary edema among climbers of high peaks. A timely study in a recent issue of High Altitude Medicine & Biology, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc....

Create holiday memories to last a lifetime with family and friends at Callaway Gardens' Fantasy In Lights, a holiday light and sound production Pine Mountain, GA (PRWEB) December 3, 2010 This holiday season marks the 19th Annual Fantasy in Lights® -- named one of the top 48 events in the world by Chicago Tribune -- at Callaway Gardens, a 13,000-acre destination south of Atlanta. Fantasy in Lights features 8 million lights stretching more than five miles, creating 14...

GILLINGHAM, England, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- As the nights draw in and the temperature drops it's time to turn to the comfort and warmth of down and Webtogs' regular best seller, the classic North Face Nuptse jacket. A classic for a reason, the North Face Nuptse has the style to look good on or off the mountain but doesn't compromise when it comes to performance. Using high lofting 700 Fill Power down and a sewn through construction the Nuptse delivers the warmth needed for cold dry days...

By Mari N. Jensen, University of Arizona College of ScienceGlaciers can help actively growing mountains become higher by protecting them from erosion, according to a University of Arizona-led research team.The finding is contrary to the conventional view of glaciers as powerful agents of erosion that carve deep fjords and move massive amounts of sediment down mountains. Mountains grow when movements of the Earth's crust push the rocks up.The research is the first to show that the erosion...

A new study published on Thursday suggests climate is the main factor limiting the height of mountains across the globe, and not the upward thrust of the Earth's clashing tectonic plates, AFP reported.Scientists said this so-called "buzzsaw" effect of glaciers forms when temperatures stay below a certain threshold, otherwise the peaks of Mount Everest and K2 might have been even higher.David Engholm, a researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark and lead author of the study, said...

CNSX:CTT VANCOUVER, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Continent Resources Inc. (CNSX:CTT) is pleased to announce the results of the first phase of reverse circulation drilling from its Lone Mountain Project located near Silver City, New Mexico. Drill hole LM-42, intersected 600 feet grading 0.205% oxide copper between 200 and 800 feet, with 50 feet grading 0.498% copper and with the last 30 feet grading 0.43% copper. This limited, first phase drill program focused on near surface oxide...