How And When Did Mount Everest Become The Tallest Mountain?
How and when did Mount Everest become the tallest mountain?
Mount Everest’s Rise to Tallest
When we consider the height of the mountains from sea level, Mount Everest is the tallest. It is approximately 8848.86 meters high! To be frank, it is almost equal to nine kilometers, but as measured from the Earth’s core, Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo is the world’s highest, standing more than 2,072 meters (6,800 feet) above Everest. Because the Earth bulges in the middle, mountains along the equator are farther from the core. But how did Mount Everest become so big? To answer this question, we have to dive deeper into tectonic movements and other plate movements. The outer shell of the Earth, the lithosphere, is divided into seven different plates: the African plate, the Antarctic plate, the Eurasian plate, the Indo-Australian plate, the North American plate, the Pacific plate, and the South American plate. These plates undergo movement, which results in the formation of mountains and other phenomena. Mount Everest formed from a tectonic smashup between the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates tens of millions of years ago. This collision is still going on. That is why Mt. Everest is growing every minute.
– Written by Edutuber Mallu
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