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2007-04-03 12:44:41 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Other - Education

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Hi, I think you are kidding. Thats a simple question. Anyways I shall tell you where is Mount Everest. It is at a border between Nepal and China and it is also known as, "Sagar Matha". You will understand the meaning of Sagarmatha if you know Hindi.

2007-04-04 02:15:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Mount Everest, mountain peak in the Himalayas of southern Asia, considered the highest mountain in the world. Mount Everest is situated at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau (Qing Zang Gaoyuan), on the border of Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

Mount Everest was known as Peak XV until 1856, when it was named for Sir George Everest, the surveyor general of India from 1830 to 1843. The naming coincided with an official announcement of the mountain's height, taken as the average of six separate measurements made by the Great Trigonometrical Survey in 1850. Most Nepali people refer to the mountain as Sagarmatha, meaning “Forehead in the Sky.” Speakers of Tibetan languages, including the Sherpa people of northern Nepal, refer to the mountain as Chomolungma, Tibetan for “Goddess Mother of the World.”

The height of Mount Everest has been determined to be 8,850 m (29,035 ft). The mountain’s actual height, and the claim that Everest is the highest mountain in the world, have long been disputed. But scientific surveys completed in the early 1990s continued to support evidence that Everest is the highest mountain in the world. In fact, the mountain is rising a few millimeters each year due to geological forces. Global Positioning System (GPS) has been installed on Mount Everest for the purpose of detecting slight rates of geological uplift.

II Geological Formation

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Mount Everest, like the rest of the Himalayas, rose from the floor of the ancient Tethys Sea. The range was created when the Eurasian continental plate collided with the Indian subcontinental plate about 30 to 50 million years ago. Eventually the marine limestone was forced upward to become the characteristic yellow band on the top of Mount Everest. Beneath the shallow marine rock lies the highly metamorphosed black gneiss (foliated, or layered, rock) of Precambrian time, a remnant of the original continental plates that collided and forced up the Himalayas.

2007-04-03 12:49:40 · answer #2 · answered by maz33 2 · 0 0

Nepal

2007-04-03 12:47:49 · answer #3 · answered by Skyhawk 5 · 1 0

On the border between Nepal and China.

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2007-04-03 12:49:02 · answer #4 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0 0

In my back closet - stuff is piled up like crazy!

2007-04-03 12:52:10 · answer #5 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0 0

in the Himalaya mountain range

china

2007-04-03 12:48:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

no clue but i just got 2 points yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa me

2007-04-03 12:48:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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