The emergence of the young Alps

  Hi friends!  

In my blog today is mountain day! Such a mood today. I wanted to review the photos of travel to the mountains and share with you

The emergence of the young Alps is very mysterious! Volcanoes in this area is not available, it turns out miraculously they originated from the plains. One of the interesting hypotheses is The cober hypothesis. The collision of the two continents of Europe and Africa. 45 million years, the African plate is moving towards Europe. And here is it-clash!

High pressure in the collision of continents led to changes and deformation of the surface of the crust. Little secrets of the process of occurrence of mountains were opened by crystals of quartz. Their thickness is very small-it is 1/25000 mm. under an electron microscope, you can see some granules. Scientists compared conventional granules outside the Alps and granules of rocks.

It turned out that the quartz crystals in the Alps stretched out and became thinner. So to change the structure of the crystal have a tremendous impact pressure. This pressure and created two plates that collided. And formed wonderful Alps according to one hypothesis. Photos of these beautiful places I present to you below.

 Travel with pleasure! 

 Until next time, @r3benok