The geology of these mountains was investigated by researchers from the Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University, 1958-62.

The range of Eastern Balts reached to the Ural mountains.

In the same time frame, much of present eastern Eurasian plate welded itself to Europe along the line of the Ural mountains.

All the machinery and equipment – right down to the window frames and bathroom fixtures – was dismantled and shipped to a site near the Ural mountains.

It can be found with fluorite and cassiterite in various areas including the Ural and Ilmen mountains of Russia, in Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Czech Republic, Germany, Norway, Pakistan, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Brazil, Mexico ; Flinders Island, Australia ; Nigeria and the United States.

The Ural Mountains in the middle of the maps are labeled Montes dicti Cingulus Terræ (" The mountains called the Girdle of the Earth ")

The mountains lie within the Ural geographical region and significantly overlap with the Ural Federal District and Ural economic region.

It is found in crystalline marbles and schists in the Ural mountains of Russia and Outokumpu, Finland.

On 14 February they were reunited in Vologda, and, now travelling together, headed eastwards across the Ural mountains, arriving in the small city of Tobolsk ( one of the main stopping points of the journey ) on 16 March.

The site chosen was the town of Irbit, located on the fringe of vast Siberia in the Ural mountains.

The element ruthenium was isolated in 1844 from platinum ore found in the Ural mountains.

As war approached, more resources were put into developing armaments, tanks and weapons, as well as constructing additional military factories east of the Ural mountains.

The Bashkirs () are a Turkic people indigenous to Bashkortostan extending on both parts of the Ural mountains, on the place where Europe meets Asia.

Small populations also in Ryfylke, Scotland, and the Ural Mountains, with another subspecies in the mountains of Northern America.

Perovskites take their name from this compound, which was first discovered in the Ural mountains of Russia by Gustav Rose in 1839 and is named after Russian mineralogist L. A. Perovski ( 1792 – 1856 ).

With the significant exceptions of the Ural Mountains and the mountains of eastern Siberia, the mountains occupy the southern periphery of the Soviet Union.

Topography: Vast steppe with low hills west of Ural Mountains ; extensive coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia ; deserts in Central Asia ; mountains along southern boundaries.

Their western distribution encompasses the Ural mountains, where they are sympatric with European pine martens.

The Samoyedic languages ( or ) are spoken on both sides of the Ural mountains, in northernmost Eurasia, by approximately 30, 000 speakers altogether.

Most of the Jews crossed the Sahn river to the Soviet side and hid in the Ural mountains, including the elder rabbi and his family.

He explored the Caspian Sea, the Ural, Altai mountains and the upper Amur, reaching as far eastward as Lake Baikal.

In 1796, the viceroyalty, administered by a governor-general, was transformed into Vologda Governorate, the borders of which stretched up to the Ural mountains in the east.

Though creeks in the Santa Cruz mountains flow brimful the year round and it is forever spring, the apples that grow there have a wintry crackle.

The term may be common to Italo-Celtic, because the Celtic languages have terms for high mountains derived from alp.

The higher mountains have a special flora showing close agreement over wide intervals of space, as well as affinities with the mountain flora of the eastern Mediterranean, the Himalaya and Indo-China.

The Lemba people of South Africa and Zimbabwe have claimed that their ancestors carried the Ark south, calling it the ngoma lungundu or " voice of God ", eventually hiding it in a deep cave in the Dumghe mountains, their spiritual home.

A poem of Callimachus to the goddess " who amuses herself on mountains with archery " imagines some charming vignettes: according to Callimachus, at three years old, Artemis, while sitting on the knee of her father, Zeus, asked him to grant her six wishes: to remain always a virgin ; to have many names to set her apart from her brother Apollo ; to be the Phaesporia or Light Bringer ; to have a bow and arrow and a knee-length tunic so that she could hunt ; to have sixty " daughters of Okeanos ", all nine years of age, to be her choir ; and for twenty Amnisides Nymphs as handmaidens to watch her dogs and bow while she rested.

The first documented bouldering advocate may have been Oscar Eckenstein, a British engineer and innovative climber who wrote about bouldering, and in the 1890s conducted an informal bouldering competition for natives in Askole, a village in the Karakoram mountains.

Glaciation was however restricted to alpine glaciers on some high-latitude mountains, though seasonal snow may have existed farther south.

In fact, he fled the field as soon as he realized he did not have the time or the men to prevail, retreating to the mountains of the Eifel to gather men, and train them.

A German ethnic minority have settled in the mountains between Vicenza, Verona and Trento in Italy ( also known as Seven Communities ) is also called the Cimbri (: it: Cimbri ( minoranza linguistica )).

The chains of mountains show a direction northwest-southeast, except in the Southern peninsula ( in Haiti ) where they have a direction west-east.

This southern group of mountains have a geology very different from the rest of the island.

The Red Sea may have been named after these mountains, which are red.

Numerous lakes of volcanic origin are found in the interior highlands ; many of these lakes are surrounded by mountains and have high, steep banks.

As they have for thousands of years, people of all ages in Africa continue to interact with nature, including plants, breathtaking animals and earthly structures such as rivers, plains and mountains.

There are several high mountains including Mount Tabor and Mount Meron in the region, which have relatively low temperatures and high rainfall.

The western mountains have the highest peaks, with the Pico Congolón at an elevation of 2, 500 meters and the Cerro Las Minas at 2, 850 meters.

For example, recent studies have suggested genetic variants in deer mice that help explain how deer mice that live in the mountains are able to survive in the thin air that accompanies high altitudes.

During the 5th century the North West ( North of the Antonine Wall and West of the Grampian mountains ) is believed to have been raided and latter settled by Gaels / Scoti originating from Northern Ireland.

Hills and even mountains have been razed to provide flat areas for housing.

But the Earth is not homogenous, and has mountains — which have gravity and so can shift the vertical plane away from the Earth's axis.

These mountains are sparsely populated by tribal minorities who traditionally have not acknowledged the border with Vietnam any more than lowland Lao have been constrained by the 1, 754-kilometer Mekong River border with Thailand.

The steep mountains and lack of roads have caused upland ethnic groups to rely entirely on pack baskets and horse packing for transportation.