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The highest peak : how Mount Everest formed / Jenna Tolli.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Earth's history through rocksPublisher: New York : PowerKids Press, [2020]Description: 32 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781725301443
  • 172530144X
  • 9781725301467
  • 1725301466
  • 9781725301450
  • 1725301458
Other title:
  • How Mount Everest formed
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The highest peak on earth -- Sir Everest -- Moving continents -- Beneath the mountains -- Studying the Earth -- History through rocks -- Learning about the past -- Changes we can see -- Climate change -- To the top -- A safer journey -- Advances in technology -- Using the past to predict the future -- Reading the rocks -- Glossary.
Summary: "Mount Everest, Earth's tallest mountain over sea level, formed about 40 million to 50 million years ago when prehistoric continents split and collided. This process was made possible by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. In this book, readers will learn more about how the movement of these tectonic plates helped form the Himalayas, including Everest. Breathtaking photos provide readers with visual correlations to the text, while fact boxes and sidebars supplement the main text."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 555.496 T651 Available 33111009549524
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Mount Everest, Earth's tallest mountain over sea level, formed about 40 million to 50 million years ago when prehistoric continents split and collided. This process was made possible by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. Readers will learn more about how the movement of these tectonic plates helped form the Himalayas, including Everest. Breathtaking photographs provide readers with visual correlations to the narrative, while fact boxes and sidebars supplement the main text.

"Mount Everest, Earth's tallest mountain over sea level, formed about 40 million to 50 million years ago when prehistoric continents split and collided. This process was made possible by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. In this book, readers will learn more about how the movement of these tectonic plates helped form the Himalayas, including Everest. Breathtaking photos provide readers with visual correlations to the text, while fact boxes and sidebars supplement the main text."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

The highest peak on earth -- Sir Everest -- Moving continents -- Beneath the mountains -- Studying the Earth -- History through rocks -- Learning about the past -- Changes we can see -- Climate change -- To the top -- A safer journey -- Advances in technology -- Using the past to predict the future -- Reading the rocks -- Glossary.

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