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The Aravalli Range (also spelled Aravali) is a mountain range in Northern-Western India, running approximately 670 km (420 mi) in a south-west direction, starting near Delhi, passing through southern Haryana, [1] Rajasthan, and ending in Ahmedabad Gujarat. [2] [3] The highest peak is Guru Shikhar on Mount Abu at 1,722 m (5,650 ft).
The Laurentian Mountains [8] are one of the oldest mountain ranges in the world, being of Precambrian age, with some regions dating to over one billion years old. [9] The mountain range is between other related geologic features, such as the Monteregian Hills and the older Oka Hills. [10] The mountain range is located within the Grenville ...
The Andes range consist of hundreds of mountain peaks.. The world's longest above-water mountain range is the Andes, [1] about 7,000 km (4,300 mi) long. The range stretches from north to south through seven countries in South America, along the west coast of the continent: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown, pink, and gray This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies . First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent.
A mine in the Ural Mountains, early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, 1910. The Urals are among the world's oldest extant mountain ranges. Some have estimated the age to be 250 to 300 million years, the elevation of the mountains is unusually high.
Mount Roraima is a flat-topped mountain, typical of the Guyana Shield, [12] with an elevation of about 1,200 m (3,900 ft) in the southeast and only about 600 m (2,000 ft) in the northwest. [7] The south, southeast, east, northeast and northwest faces are all formed by straight cliffs up to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft) high.
This mountain range, known as the Central Pangean Mountains, extended into Scotland, before the Mesozoic Era opening of the Iapetus Ocean, from the North America/Europe collision (See Caledonian orogeny). Old fault exposed by roadcut near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, along Interstate 81.
It is believed that the Aravallis are one of the oldest mountain ranges in India that evolved around 2.5 billion years ago during the Archaeozoic era. The range extends from Gujarat through Rajasthan to Haryana-Delhi. In Delhi, the spurs of the Aravallis are commonly collectively referred to as the Delhi Ridge, which is divided into the ...