Quote:Bismillah
salam Rugg, I already welcomed u on another thread but let me say it again welcome to the board.
Well, honestly, the “
<i>mountains serve as pegs to earth
</i>”, is demonstrably wrong as is the oft cited “
<i>That mountains have below them roots that extend deep into the earth’s surface and stabilize the earth’s crust
</i>”.
Mountains do not stabilize the earth's crust, they invariably are the result of plate tectonics which is exactly the
<i>opposite
</i> of a stable crust. Mountains form where two moving plates collide and buckle-- they have no "roots" and are certainly not “pegs” as they are the crushing and upward thrusting of plates. We sense the illusion of stability because the crust moves slowly and huge sections of it are unaffected directly by the movement. The crust itself is cooled rock floating on magma. If one wants a stable crust, one doesn't live along the plate ridges, where there are our string of mountains shown globally, one lives on the plains, where there are no mountains.