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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 551.82
EAN: 9780064451284
ISBN: 0064451283
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: May 30, 1995
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Release Date: March 31, 1995
Sales Rank: 359624
Studio: HarperCollins
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Even though Mount Everest measures 29,028 feet high, it may be growing about two inches a year. A mountain might be thousands of feet high, but it can still grow taller or shorter each year. Mountains are created when the huge plates that make up the earth's outer shell very slowly pull and push against one another. Read and find out about all the different kinds of mountains.
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This book is anomalous to this series of educational books. As stated by a previous poster, the account of the internal structure of the Earth is false, and there are numerous other problems throughout. The errors are not trivial and will give children (and their unsuspecting parents) an erroneous misconception of the nature of geologic processes. I present my review as a geology professor with more than 15 years of teaching and research experience related to mountain building.
A ... Read More
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I am certainly not an Earth Scientist, but I can say that this book proves to be an excellent starting point for young children to grasp the basic understanding that the Earth itself is a lot more complex than one can see on the surface.
The beginning story-line of children setting out for a mountain hike captures a child's interest from the start. The illustrations are imaginative and capture the wonder of God's creation beautifully. The boook covers some basic concepts such as how ... Read More
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Delightful! "How Mountains Are Made" makes an excellent supplement to any elementary-school earth science unit. Its good-humored, user-friendly pages engage classes' attention and stimulate the students to ask questions. A clear, accurate, and accessible introduction to a complex subject - this will certainly put budding young geologists on firm footing. A wonderful addition to the venerable "Let's Read and Find Out Science" series!
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This book pretty accurately presents a simplified version of the current theory on mountain formation. According to the UC Berkeley department of Geology, the asthenosphere is fluid: "These observations, along with many other studies of our planet, support the theory that underneath the Earth's crust (the lithosphere: a solid array of plates) is a malleable layer of heated rock known as the asthenosphere which is heated by radioactive decay of elements such as Uranium, Thorium, and Potassium. Because ... Read More
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Unfortunately, and unusually for this series, this book is complete fiction. We got it for our daughter, and had to throw it away. The geophysics presented in this book is completely imaginary (and I should know, I'm an earth scientist). The basic premise is that the plates of the Earth's crust ride on a layer of magma. That is false. The plates move on top of the aesthenosphere, which is quite solid. The enormous stresses over large distances allow it to flow, so that the plates move a few cm/year. ... Read More
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