Mountain range

is comprised of drilled piers to support 40m long glulam girders cantilevered (Structure Craft, 2013). The elevation of the bridge displays stepped glulam girders to follow the flow of forces (Structure Craft, 2013). These engineered timber members range from 2.6m at the piers and 0.9m at the centre of the span (Structure Craft, 2013). In addition to the engineered timber, tensioned rods tie the cantilevered glulam to concrete abutments at either end of the bridge (Structure Craft, 2013). c.…

a rain shadow, however rainforest are found on the opposite side of a mountain range to a desert. Research done by Edward K. Vizy and Kerry H. Cook (2006) explains an example of this in the Amazon Basin in South America. Moist prevailing easterly trade winds from the Hadley Cell and ICTZ move from the Atlantic Ocean towards South America, they precipitate over the low altitude Amazon Basin before rising up to the Andes Mountains, this forms the Atacama Desert on the leeward side. This large…

landforms found within mountain ranges. Man-made buildings include, historic buildings such as Scotty’s Castle, lodging areas, and more. The absolute…

recent eruption. Mt. St. Helens most recently erupted on May 18, 1980. An earthquake right under the mountain caused an enormous landslide/avalanche going close to 150 mph. A huge hazard from this event was the pyroclastic flows, which were allowed to escape because the landslide reduced the pressure keeping it in there. Extremely hot ash, poisonous gases, and lava fragments flowed down the mountain at speeds quicker than 200 mph. Mt. St…

painting. Mount Fuji is symbolic in each painting, yet he uses scale to give importance to the catastrophic waves, or the Japanese villagers gathering peacefully. In both paintings, Mount Fuji is the background. The mountain is undefeated by natural disasters. In The Inlet of Nobuto, the mountain is really distant, and completely covered with snow; even though, the sun is shining. The Great Wave’s Mount Fuji, is accumulating snow. In the painting The Great Wave, Hokusai used curved lines, and…

There are over 50 National Parks in the United States. Each one of them has unique landmarks that were formed through hundreds of years. However, each of the landforms have one thing in common- they were formed through various processes involving water and rocks. Water and rocks shape our world by weathering and eroding the land, forming canyons, cliffs, and other landforms. The water cycle is a never-ending process in which water goes through various processes, evaporating and precipitating…

leopards. Snow leopards can be found around altitudes between nine thousand eight hundred and seventeen thousand feet in the high and rugged mountains of Central Asia. Snow leopards have evolved in many different way to be able to live in some of the harshest conditions that can be found on Earth. The snow leopards scale the great, extremely steep slopes of the mountains in Central Asia with complete ease, and they can blend into the landscape. But these beautiful and majestic, endangered cats…

the picturesque Swiss Alps. The day began as every other had before. Wake up, go downstairs, and eat a traditional European breakfast consisting of brotchen, coffee, and cold cuts. When breakfast was over we were able to begin our journey up the mountain. It started with the short train ride in Wilderswil where we had a scenic ride through the Lauterbrunnen Valley. Upon arrival in Lauterbrunnen, we boarded a cogwheel train which took us to the quaint village of Wengen, a town without cars, and…

Learning a new task is something really difficult,and in my case it was the hardest thing to convenices my parents a to learn how to climb a mountain, climbing a mountain is a really hard thing to do it requires lot of physical traning and lot more things.the most importand thing I climbing a mountain is to create really good balance in team work, how to coordinate with your patner, I was always afraid of height,but I was sure about mountaining that it is adventurous thing and I should learn…

cease to exist. A well-known philosopher named Aristotle in short claims that all natural species have needs and want to “persist in their natural state”. However the author Elliott Sober introduces the fact that all things have needs from plants, mountains, dumpsters, machines, however, the problem with environmentalism is determining a way to weigh and determine the needs of different objects. To determine this we also need to keep in mind how needs can conflict. Such as in business situations…