The Ural mountains

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The Ural mountains

• A plate tectonic story

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The continental divide

• Russia is so large it is in Europe and Asia
• The Ural Mountains are the dividing line between
  the two continents
• They formed between 200 and 300 million years ago
• Plate tectonic movements are physical processes
  operating on a planetary scale

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The Ural mountains

• The Ural Mountains extend about 2,500 km from the
  Arctic Circle to the grasslands of the northern
  border of Kazakhstan

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The continental divide

• The Ural Mountains run from north to south
  through Central Asia, separating Europe from Asia

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Drawing the map
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Plate tectonic theory

• The Earths crust is made up of pieces called
  plates
• Below the crust is a hot semi-molten layer called
  the Earths mantle
• Heat from the Earths core causes convection
  currents in the mantle
• These currents slowly move the plates around
• The Ural Mountains formed when two plates
  collided, over 200 million years ago

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260 million years ago
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Picture credits

• Slide 3, 4, 5 UNDP / Peter Prokosch
• Slide 8 Ron Blakey, NAU Geology -
  http//cpgeosystems.com/mollglobe.html