Re: The Quran & Modern Science - Compaltible or Incompatible - Part - 3 “GEOGRAPHY”
Mountains are formed along plate boundaries that collide. Consider two cars that crash into each otherhead on - both cars have a crumple zone that fold upwards and downwards lessening the force of the collision to the rest of the car … So the major impact to the car happens at the very beginning and due to the crumpling the force is gradually dampened - if cars were hard they would deliver the full force as a shock wave throughout the car … Plate boundaries are like this … the major force is absorbed by the mountains they are forced upwards and downwards … the denser rock along the crumpled mountainous regions on cross-section resemble stakes in the ground … Consider anchors to boats on the sea … well that is the effect of mountains, because the lower their roots grow, the slower the movement in the mantle and hence there is an inertial resistence created slowing movement in the plate as a whole.