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MOUNTAIN GIANTS
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specifications
Mountains (mountain systems) are highly dissected parts of the land, significantly, by 500 meters or more, elevated above the adjacent plains. The mountains are separated from the plains either directly by the foot of the slope or by foothills[1]. Mountains can be linearly elongated or arched with a parallel, lattice, radial, feathery, backstage or branching pattern of dismemberment. There are highlands (more than 2500 meters above sea level), middle mountains (800-2500) and low mountains (up to 800)[2].
Mountains are formed in tectonically active areas; by origin, mountains are divided into tectonic, erosive, and volcanic. Depending on the nature of the deformations of the earth's crust, folded, lumpy and folded-blocky mountains are distinguished among tectonic mountains. Mountain systems occupy 64% of the surface of Asia, 36% of North America, 25% of Europe, 22% of South America, 17% of Australia and 3% of Africa. In general, 24% of the earth's surface is covered by mountains. 10% of all people live in the mountains. Most of the Earth's rivers originate in the mountains [source not specified 1024 days]. Mountains are usually bounded by foothills forming their foothills. They have different types of watersheds (ridges, peaks, alignment surfaces). There are mountain lakes in intermountain depressions and valleys.
Relief
Depending on the area occupied by the mountains, their structure and age, there are: isolated uplifts of small extent, the so-called island mountains (e.g., Khibiny); mountain groups; mountain ranges are large linearly elongated uplifts of relief with clearly defined slopes intersecting in the upper part. The points of the highest heights form the crest of the ridge — a line elongated longitudinally, dividing the ridge into two slopes and serving as a watershed (a line separating adjacent river basins);
mountain ranges are areas of mountainous countries located more or less isolated and having approximately the same length and width (for example, Mont Blanc in the Alps); they differ in relatively weak dismemberment, they are separated from the neighboring ridges of a mountainous country by wide and deep valleys; mountain systems — mountains united geographically, having a common cause of origin and having morphological unity; mountain countries; mountain belts are the largest unit in the classification of mountain relief, representing several mountain systems stretched into a single (continuous or discontinuous) strip; these include, for example, the Alpine-Himalayan mountain belt (extending from Western Europe to the southeastern tip of Asia) and the Andes-Cordillera mountain belt, stretched along the western the outskirts of North and South America.
Mountains
Горы — находящиеся высоко над уровнем моря обширные территории со складчатой и складчато-глыбовой структурой земной коры с резкими колебаниями высот. Горы на дне океанов — срединно-океанические хребты. Святые Горы — национальный природный парк, расположенный в северной части Донецкой области (Украина). Горы (О́ры, Хоры, др.-греч. Ὥραι, «Времена») — богини времен года в древнегреческой мифологии.
Брестская область Горы — деревня в Каменецком районе. Горы — деревня в Малоритском районе. Витебская область Горы — упразднённая деревня в Лиозненском районе. Горы — деревня в Россонском районе. Горы — деревня в Сенненском районе. Горы — деревня в Чашникском районе. Минская область Горы — деревня в Минском районе. Могилёвская область Горы — агрогородок в Горецком районе. Горы — агрогородок в Краснопольском районе.