Ural+Mountains

Ural Mountains: James Green
 * The majority of the Ural Mountains are located in Russia. They extend to an entire 1500 miles long. They stretch from the Kara Sea and the Artic Ocean to the Aral and Caspian Sea. The Ural Mountains are said to make up the border between Europe and Asia. Mount Narodnaia has the highest elevation in the Ural Mountains. Mount Narodnaia has a height of about six thousand feet. The average elevation of the Ural Mountains reaches up to three to four thousand feet. The Ural Mountains are among the world's oldest mountains, 300 to 250 million years old, and erosion has lowered them over the years tremendously. There are many rivers in the Ural Mountains. Totally, they make up 150 cubic meters per year. The deepest rivers flow down from the western slopes into the rivers Kama and Pechora, shallow rivers flow from the eastern slope into the Ob River.

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 * The northern sections of the Urals are called the pre polar and polar urals. The northern Urals are higher and have a more tundra like climate. Summer only comes around for one month. The chain is divided into four main divisions: Polar Northern Middle, and Southern Urals. The Polars are above latitude 64 degrees north and has a treeless arctic tundra. The Northern Urals are from latitude 64 degrees north to latitude 61 degrees north. treeless narrow range with crests averaging 1000 ft to 1500 ft in height. The entire Middle Ural latitude 61 degrees north to latitude 60 degrees north and is covered with thick coniferous forests. The Southern Urals are from latitude 55 degrees north to latitude 51 degrees north.


 * In the inner sections of the Ural Mountains, there are a great supply of minerals and metals. In the mountains you can find minerals and metals such as iron, copper, chroium, nickel, coal and oil. Most industrialized regions include Perm, Cheliablinsk, Ekaterinburg and Magnitogorsk. The divisions of the range reflect distinct episodes in this ancient upheaval, which squeezed thick sidimentary rock layers into large northern southern trending folds, then faulted and intruded them with a variety of igneous rocks. The Ural Mountains play a huge roll in Russiaian history. They are the typical natural border between Europe and Asia. However, they are not hard to pass through. The mountains failed to stop the Mongols from attacking and they played a large roll in previous wars in Europe and Asia.

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