The name of the mountains is a translation of an Amerindian name that is closely related to Algonquian; the Cree name ' is given as, "When seen from across the prairies, they looked like a rocky mass". The first mention of their present name by a European was in the journal of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre in 1752, where they were called "'".
Etymology
Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains | Etymology
It is a translation of the Cree name ' is given as, "When seen from across the prairies, they looked like a rocky mass". The name of the mountains is a translation of an Amerindian name that is closely related to Algonquian It is a translation of an Amerindian name that is closely related to Algonquian; the Cree name ' is given as, "When seen from across the prairies, they looked like a rocky mass". It is a translation of an Amerindian name that is closely related to Algonquian; when seen from across the prairies, they looked like a rocky mass.
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The name of the mountains is a translation of an Amerindian name that is closely related to Algonquian; the Cree name ' is given as, "When seen from across the prairies, they looked like a rocky mass". The first mention of their present name by a European was in the journal of Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre in 1752, where they were called "'".
Rocky Mountains | Etymology
Parnassius smintheus, the Rocky Mountain parnassian or Rocky Mountain apollo, is a high-altitude butterfly found in the Rocky Mountains throughout the United States and Canada. It is a member of the snow Apollo genus ("Parnassius") of the swallowtail family ("Papilionidae"). The butterfly ranges in color from white to pale yellow-brown, with red and black markings that indicate to predators it is unpalatable. "Parnassius smintheus" primarily feeds on the leaves of the "Sedum lanceolatum" plant as larvae and on its nectar as adults. The butterfly tends to reside in meadows and avoids forests, because it strongly prefers light. The males of this species fly from meadow to meadow frequently to find females and food resources, whereas females are more likely to avoid flying.
Parnassius smintheus | Introduction
The species name refers to the site where the species was collected and is derived from Latin "montanus" (meaning mountainous).
Athrips montana | Etymology
The range is called after the Riphean Mountains in the geography of classical antiquity.
Montes Riphaeus | Introduction
H. Scudder who pointed out the difference between the genus "Caloptenus" that he noted as being more correctly spelled "Calliptenus" and "Melanoplus". Although the name "Rocky Mountain locust" was thought to have been given to this species following recovery of specimens washing off from Rocky Mountains glaciers in recent years, particularly from the Grasshopper Glacier, the name was given to the species, while it was still extant, after it had been established that the true habitat and breeding site of the species is high on the Rocky Mountains. The species is reported to have descended from the Rocky Mountains to the prairie in large numbers only in certain years, particularly in dry seasons, following westward wind currents.
Rocky Mountain locust | Taxonomy
The species name refers to the species distribution in high mountains and is derived from Latin "montanus" (meaning mountainous).
Ephysteris montana | Etymology
Mount Parnassus is a high mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The thirteener is located in Arapaho National Forest, west-northwest (bearing 288°) of the Town of Silver Plume in Clear Creek County, Colorado, United States.
Mount Parnassus (Colorado) | Introduction
The mountain is delimited to the east by the valley of the Boeotian Kephissus and to the West by the valley of Amfissa. The geological particularity of Parnassus is its rich deposits of bauxite, which has led to their systematic mining since the end of the 1930s, resulting in ecological damage to part of the mountain.
Mount Parnassus | Geology and geography
The mountain's name was applied in 1916 by Morrison P. Bridgland (1878–1948), a Dominion Land Surveyor who named many peaks in Jasper Park and the Canadian Rockies. Bridgland was impressed with the dark colored cliffs of the northeast face of the mountain. The Greek word for "darkness" is "erebus". Bridgland would have also known about and Franklin's lost expedition. The mountain is located at the west margin of the Tonquin Valley, which is also named for another ill-fated ship, . The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1924 by L. Coolidge, G. Higginsnon, J. E. Johnson, and guide A.
Mount Erebus (Canada) | History
"P. smintheus" is currently abundant in the Rocky Mountains, but the closely related species "Parnassius apollo" and "Parnassius mnemosyne" are threatened in Europe due to habitat loss and population isolation. These phenomena are beginning to endanger "P. smintheus" as well. Due to fire suppression and possibly global warming, the tree line has risen while the meadow areas have decreased by over 78% since 1952. There is likely to be less feeding grounds for the larvae of this species as the tree line continues to rise, since they prefer to feed further away from it. Conservation efforts would best be directed at conserving remaining habitat and promoting connectivity among existing populations.
Parnassius smintheus | Conservation
The range of the butterfly is based primarily in the Rocky Mountains, which spans Canada and the United States. This includes the mountainous areas of Yukon, Alaska, and British Columbia in Canada, and as far south as New Mexico in the United States. "P. smintheus" can often be found in alpine and subalpine meadows. It was found that males of this species preferred meadows with a greater abundance of nectar flowers and a higher quantity of the host plant "Sedum lanceolatum". They also preferred meadows with a greater number of females of their species. Males may sample two or more meadows to gain information on their relative quality.
Parnassius smintheus | Range and habitat
Mountains at 1,600 to 2,800 meters, in particular between 1,800 and 2,200 meters above sea level, in humid damp and wet places such as edges of mountain streams and near springs and fresh seepages and in valleys (Schneetälchen) according to the preferences of its caterpillar food plant.
Parnassius phoebus | Habitat
A few different local legends about the origin of the name exist. One claims that Pilatus was named so because Pontius Pilate was buried there. However, a similar legend is told of Monte Vettore in Italy. Another is that the mountain looks like the belly of a large man, Pilate, lying on his back and was thus named for him. The name may also be derived from "pileatus," meaning "cloud-topped." A medieval legend had dragons with healing powers living on the mountain. A chronicle from 1619 reads: 'as I was contemplating the serene sky by night, I saw a very bright dragon with flapping wings go from a cave in a great rock in the mount called Pilatus toward another cave, known as Flue, on the opposite side of the lake'.
Pilatus (mountain) | History
Parnassus is one of the largest mountainous regions of Mainland Greece and one of the highest Greek mountains. It spreads over three municipalities, namely of Boeotia, Phthiotis and Phocis, where its largest part lies. Its altitude is 2,457 meters and its highest peak is Liakouras. To the Northeast it is connected to Giona and to the south with Kirphe. Its name is due to the homonymous hero of the Greek mythology, son of Cleopompus (or Poseidon) and Cleodora, who had built on the mountain a city which was destroyed in the Deluge of Deukalion. Etymological analysis, however, shows a prehellenic origin of the name, relating it to the Pelasgians, and it appears to be from the Anatolian language Luwian.
Mount Parnassus | Geology and geography
The species name is derived from Latin "montanus" (meaning mountain).
Pectinimura montiatilis | Etymology
The species is named for the Aspromonte mountains.
Scythris aspromontis | Etymology
The rocks in the Rocky Mountains were formed before the mountains were raised by tectonic forces. The oldest rock is Precambrian metamorphic rock that forms the core of the North American continent. There is also Precambrian sedimentary argillite, dating back to 1.7 billion years ago. During the Paleozoic, western North America lay underneath a shallow sea, which deposited many kilometers of limestone and dolomite. In the southern Rocky Mountains, near present-day Colorado, these ancestral rocks were disturbed by mountain building approximately 300 Ma, during the Pennsylvanian. This mountain-building produced the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. They consisted largely of Precambrian metamorphic rock forced upward through layers of the limestone laid down in the shallow sea.
Rocky Mountains | Geology
Botanical collections attributable to this species date back at least to the middle of the 19th century, but the taxon was long regarded merely as a form of "A. sericeus". It was not until 1978 that Irish botanist E. Charles Nelson published it as a distinct species. He based his concept of the species on a specimen collected by him in 1973 from East Mount Barren in the Fitzgerald River National Park. He gave it the specific epithet "oreophila" from the Ancient Greek terms "oreos" ("mountain") and "philos" ("beloved"), in reference to the species occurrence only on mountain ranges. The proper word for "mountain" in Ancient Greek is however "oros" (ὄρος).
Adenanthos oreophilus | Taxonomy
The Rocky Mountains formed 80 million to 55 million years ago during the Laramide orogeny, in which a number of plates began sliding underneath the North American plate. The angle of subduction was shallow, resulting in a broad belt of mountains running down western North America. Since then, further tectonic activity and erosion by glaciers have sculpted the Rockies into dramatic peaks and valleys. At the end of the last ice age, humans began inhabiting the mountain range. After explorations of the range by Europeans, such as Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and Americans, such as the Lewis and Clark expedition, natural resources such as mineral and fur drove the initial economic exploitation of the mountains, although the range itself never experienced a dense population.
Rocky Mountains | Introduction
These orophyte plants prefer rocky mountains, with calcareous or sometimes siliceous scree and stony lawns with discontinuous vegetation, at an elevation of above sea level.
Adonis pyrenaica | Habitat
Orestheus (Ancient Greek: derived from "oresteros" "mountainous" from Greek όρος "oros" "mountain, hill"), in Greek mythology, was a name attributed to two individuals.
Orestheus | Introduction
Magma generated above the subducting slab rose into the North American continental crust about inland. Great arc-shaped volcanic mountain ranges, known as the Sierran Arc, grew as lava and ash spewed out of dozens of individual volcanoes. Beneath the surface, great masses of molten rock were injected and hardened in place. For 270 million years, the effects of plate collisions were focused very near the edge of the North American plate boundary, far to the west of the Rocky Mountain region. It was not until 80 MA that these effects began to reach the Rockies.
Geology of the Rocky Mountains | Terranes and subduction
"Clematis" is the Greek name for several climbing plants, and is a diminutive of "klema", meaning "vine shoot". The Latin specific epithet "montana" refers to mountains or coming from mountains.
Clematis montana | Etymology
Aracynthus () was a range of mountains in Aetolia, the exact position of which is uncertain. It was said to run in a south-easterly direction from the Achelous River to the Evenos, and separating the lower plain of Aetolia near the sea from the upper plain above the lakes Hyria and Trichonida. Pliny the Elder and Gaius Julius Solinus erroneously call Aracynthus a mountain of Acarnania. If we can trust the authority of later writers and of the Roman poets, there was a mountain of the name of Aracynthus both in Boeotia and in Attica, or perhaps on the frontiers of the two countries.
Aracynthus | Introduction
Recorded first as "Graupius" in 83 A.D, the genesis of the name "Grampians" is uncertain. The name may be Brittonic and represent a corrupted form, "*Cripius", containing "*crip" meaning "ridge" (c.f. Welsh "crib").
Grampian Mountains | Etymology
Mount Parnassus sits east of the Continental Divide in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The summit is located near Interstate 70. The higher Bard Peak, at , sits nearby, and the closest major town is Silver Plume, Colorado. It is also in close proximity to Woods Mountain, Mount Sniktau, Engelmann Peak, Robeson Peak, and Pettingell Peak.
Mount Parnassus (Colorado) | Location and geography
The rocks in the Rocky Mountains were formed before the mountains were raised by tectonic forces. The oldest rock is Precambrian metamorphic rock that forms the core of the North American continent. There is also Precambrian sedimentary argillite, dating back to 1.7 billion years ago. During the Paleozoic, western North America lay underneath a shallow sea, which deposited many kilometers of limestone and dolomite. In the southern Rocky Mountains, near present-day Colorado and New Mexico, these ancestral rocks were disturbed by mountain building approximately 300 Ma, during the Pennsylvanian. This mountain building produced the Ancestral Rocky Mountains. The uplift created two large mountainous islands, known to geologists as Frontrangia and Uncompahgria, located roughly in the current locations of the Front Range and the San Juan Mountains.
Geology of the Rocky Mountains | Ancestral rock
Thus Stephanus of Byzantium and Maurus Servius Honoratus speak of a Boeotian Aracynthus; and Sextus Empiricus, Lutatius, and Vibius Sequester mention an Attic Aracynthus. The mountain is connected with the Boeotian hero Amphion both by Propertius and by Virgil, and the line of Virgil--“Amphion Dircaeus in Actaeo Aracyntho” --would seem to place the mountain on the frontiers of Boeotia and Attica.
Aracynthus | Introduction
The mountain was given its name thanks to the existing natural forests of spruce that covered it (see section on forest history). In the 16th century Georgius Agricola used the Latinised form, "Pinifer" ("Fichtelberg")
Fichtelberg | Origin of the name
The species name was formally published with the Latin binomial "Caloptenus spretus" in 1866 by B.D. Walsh as named by "Mr. Uhler, without describing it," adding that "The name 'spretus' means 'despised', and refers apparently to its having been hitherto despised or overlooked by Entomologists". Walsh does not provide a description of the species, except for female wing length, as well as some aspects of biology, ecology, and control. Some entomologists credit the authority for the binomial "Caloptenus spretus" to C. Thomas, but fails on the Principle of Priority. The treatment under the genus "Melanoplus" began in 1878 in publications by S.
Rocky Mountain locust | Taxonomy
The name of the mountain is derived from a nearby former mine called "Alte Drei Brüder" (Old Three Brothers) and originates in a legend, according to which three brothers from Italy had discovered a vein of silver ore there.
Dreibrüderhöhe | Etymology
The mountain gets its name from the old English word 'knight', the silent 'k' being pronounced at that time. It is said that the shape of the mountain bears a similarity to a knight's helmet.
Cnicht | Toponymy
Mount Parnassus (; , "Parnassos") is a mountain of limestone in central Greece that towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers scenic views of the surrounding olive groves and countryside. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Dionysus and the Dionysian mysteries; it was also sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs, and it was the home of the Muses. The mountain was also favored by the Dorians. It is suggested that the name derives from "parnassas", the possessive adjective of the Luwian word "parna" meaning "house", or specifically "temple", so the name effectively means the "mountain of the house of the god".
Mount Parnassus | Introduction
The specific name "rupinius" is from Latin "rupina", meaning "rocky chasm", in reference to the rocky stream environments this species inhabits.
Craugastor rupinius | Etymology
These sedimentary rocks originated as sediment eroded from the Ancestral Rocky Mountains.
Sangre de Cristo Range | Geology
The formation of the Rocky Mountains began in the Late Cretaceous Period and finished in the Early Tertiary Period. The pressure on the fault line caused thousands of metres of rock to thrust upward. The contorted beds near the summit of Mount Michener are visible evidence of the tremendous force that caused its formation. A system of limestone caves does exist within the mountain, but they remain undocumented.
Mount Michener | Geography
The name of the mountain is of pre-Slavic origin and probably comes from the Old-Germanic stem "ríp-" (elevation, hill), which has the Latin parallel in the word "rípa" (shore, slope, hillside). Some linguists also derive the origin of the name from the Illyrian-Thracian base.
Říp Mountain | Name
"Calothamnus quadrifidus" subsp. "petraeus" was first formally described in 2010 by Alex George in Nuytsia from a specimen collected near Yellowdine. The epithet is said to be from the Greek "petraeus", meaning "rocky", in reference to the occurrence on rock outcrops. The proper word in ancient Greek for "rocky" is however "petraios" (πετραῖος).
Calothamnus quadrifidus subsp. petraeus | Taxonomy and naming
The Rocky Mountains took shape during an intense period of plate tectonic activity that resulted in much of the rugged landscape of the western North America. The Laramide orogeny, about 80–55 million years ago, was the last of the three episodes and was responsible for raising the Rocky Mountains. Subsequent erosion by glaciers has created the current form of the mountains.
Geology of the Rocky Mountains | Introduction
"Avisaurus" is known from the humid low-lying swamps, lakes, and river basins of the western shore of the Western Interior Seaway, and from the much more arid uplands between that area and the Cordilleran Overthrust Belt which eventually formed the Rocky Mountains.
Avisaurus | Paleobiology
For many years the translated meaning of the mountains name from the Gaelic was unknown, however Irvine Butterfield now says that “creis” means grease or fat and refers to the rich grazing land around the hill which was used in the past by Glen Coe herdsman to fatten their cattle.
Creise | Overview
The species name is derived from Latin "mons" (meaning mountain) with the Latin suffix "atilis" (meaning found in).
Lecithocera montiatilis | Etymology
The two taxa may be closely related, having evolved in isolation in western North America after the formation of the Rocky Mountains separated them from rhineurids further east.
Spathorhynchus | Introduction
Ascraeus Lacus had been named after Ascra, the rustic birthplace of Hesiod; in Greek, the word "ascraeus" is a poetic metonym for "rural." The volcano's name officially became Ascraeus Mons in 1973.
Ascraeus Mons | Name
The Riphean Mountains are mountains mentioned by authors of classical antiquity (Apollonius of Rhodes, Aristotle, Hecataeus of Miletus, Hippocrates, Ptolemy, Plutarch, and others), but whose location is uncertain. Later Roman writers applied the term to mountains in the north of Europe or Asia. Pomponius Mela placed them within the Arctic Circle. Pliny the Elder assigned them to the Ural Mountains. Noah Webster wrote that the earliest geographers applied the term to the Alps in Switzerland and claimed that they are the source of the Danube. All sources agree that the Riphean mountains were cold and blanketed in snow. The people living around the mountains in antiquity were variously called "Riphaeans" (Mela), "Arimphaei" (Pliny), or "Arimaspi".
Riphean Mountains | Introduction
The name is derived from Ancient Greek Κεραύνια ὄρη, meaning "thunder-split peaks".
Ceraunian Mountains | History
The Zemplén Mountains are of volcanic origin; the soil's high quality favours viticulture.
Magas-hegy | Origin
The specific name of this species is thought to honour the Scottish geologist, explorer and soldier Andrew Geddes Bain (1797-1864) who also collected zoological specimens. Bain served as a captain in the Cape Frontier Wars and may have fought the tribal chief Sandile, for whom Castelnau named the genus.
Eastern Province rocky | Introduction
The Latin specific epithet "montana" refers to mountains or coming from mountains.
Araucaria montana | Introduction
The mountain's name derives from the glaciers which occupy its northern slopes, which have however reduced substantially during the late 20th century.
Cime du Gélas | Introduction
The species was first formally described by Johannes Schauer in 1843 in "Dissertatio Phytographica de Regelia, Beaufortia et Calothamno". The specific epithet ("rupestris") is a Latin word meaning "of rocks" or "rocky".
Calothamnus rupestris | Taxonomy and naming
The Latin specific epithet "montana" refers to mountains or coming from mountains.
Centaurea montana | Taxonomy
The Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus recorded "Mons Graupius" as the site of the defeat of the native Caledonians by Gnaeus Julius Agricola "circa" 83 AD. The actual location of "Mons Graupius", literally 'Mount Graupius' (the element 'Graupius' is of unknown meaning), is a matter of dispute among historians, though most favour a location within the Grampian massif, possibly at Raedykes, Megray Hill or Kempstone Hill. The spelling "Graupius" comes from the Codex Aesinas, a mediaeval copy of Tacitus's Germania believed to be from the mid-9th century. "Graupius" was incorrectly rendered "Grampius" only in the 1476 printed edition of Tacitus's biography of Agricola.
Grampian Mountains | Name
In the Pleistocene, the small prehistoric mountain goat "Oreamnos harringtoni" lived in the southern Rocky Mountains. Ancient DNA studies suggest that this was the sister species of the living mountain goat, not its ancestor; consequently, the living species would also date back to the Pleistocene at least. The mountain goat is the only living species in the genus "Oreamnos". The name "Oreamnos" is derived from the Greek term "oros" (stem "ore-") "mountain" (or, alternatively, "oreas" "mountain nymph") and the word "amnos" "lamb".
Mountain goat | Classification and evolution
The mountain range was named in 1885. It has been named after Greek deity of the underworld, Tartarus, by the standard planetary nomenclature for Martian landforms. According to Greek myth, Tartarus is the lowest part of Hades. Zeus imprisoned the Titans in Tartarus. The second part of the name "Montes" means mountains.
Tartarus Montes | Etymology
The geology of the Rocky Mountains is that of a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins. Collectively these make up the Rocky Mountains, a mountain system that stretches from Northern British Columbia through central New Mexico and which is part of the great mountain system known as the North American Cordillera. The rocky cores of the mountain ranges are, in most places, formed of pieces of continental crust that are over one billion years old. In the south, an older mountain range was formed 300 million years ago, then eroded away. The rocks of that older range were reformed into the Rocky Mountains.
Geology of the Rocky Mountains | Introduction
The mountains were originally called "Sun-a-do" by the Duwamish Indians, while the first European to see them, the Spanish navigator Juan Pérez, named Mount Olympus "Santa Rosalia", in 1774. But the English captain John Meares, seeing them in 1788, thought he would honor the Greek explorer Juan de Fuca who claimed to have found the fabled Northwest passage nearby by naming the mountain after the mythical home of Greek Gods which is "Mount Olympus" in Greece. Various names for the mountains were used based on the name Mount Olympus, including the Olympic Range, the Olympian Mountains, and the Olympus Range.
Olympic Mountains | Prehistory
It is believed that when the Rocky Mountains were forming from plate tectonics, the Little Belt Mountains underwent a period of being subjected to magma moving close to the surface in which created several intrusions on the surface. A theory suggests that a bulge of volcanic magma and gases began to raise the surface that is now Big Baldy Mountain. The magma never exactly reached the surface, but some volcanic gases did, which created the sunken craters on the mountain after the magma disappeared from below the surface. The bulge remained, creating Big Baldy Mountain, and due to the way it was created, no vegetation is present on the top of the mountain; which is possibly where the name of the mountain came from.
Big Baldy Mountain (Montana) | History
The ancients knew the mountain as "Strobilus", Latin for "pine cone", a direct loan from the ancient Greek "strobilos", ('a twisted object') a long-established botanical term that describes the shape of the volcano's summit. In Greek mythology, the Titan Prometheus was chained to the mountain by Zeus as a punishment for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mankind. The lower of the two summits was first ascended on by Khillar Khachirov, a guide for an Imperial Russian army scientific expedition led by General Georgi Emmanuel, and the higher (by about ) in 1874 by an English expedition led by F.
Mount Elbrus | History
The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 for Richard Hardisty (1831–1889), Chief factor at Rocky Mountain House, and later the first Metis Senator in Canada. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1912 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.
Mount Hardisty | History
Streich. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1935 when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.
Mount Erebus (Canada) | History
It ranges from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir, the northern ranges of India (Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand), and China (Tibet).
Parnassius stoliczkanus | Range
". (Note that there is a mistaken choice of gender in the name by someone, be it Columbus himself, the chronicler or the translator.) The mountain is also popularly known as "Montaña del Indio" because it looks like the head of an American Indian when seen from certain angles.
Peña de los Enamorados | Name
Kirghistan, Nepal, northern India (Jammu & Kashmir, Sikkim), western China, Sinkiang and Szechwan.
Parnassius acdestis | Range
"C. montanus" usually remains under 1 m (3 ft) high because of incessant browsing by elk and deer. The name is derived from the Greek words κέρκος ("kerkos"), meaning "tail" and καρπός ("karpos"), meaning "fruit". It refers to the tail-like plume on the fruits.
Cercocarpus | Introduction
The name "Grampians" is believed to have first been applied to the mountain range in 1520 by the Scottish historian Hector Boece, an adaptation of the incorrect "Mons Grampius". Thus the range owes its name to this day to a typesetter's mistake. In the Middle Ages, this locale was known as the Mounths, a name still held by a number of geographical features.
Grampian Mountains | Name
Penstemon strictus, the Rocky Mountain penstemon, is a penstemon (common name beardtongue) with showy blue flowers.
Penstemon strictus | Introduction
Parvoscincus Aurorus' are generally found at the higher elevations of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range, in Aurora province..
Parvoscincus aurorus | Habitat
The mountains name translates from the Gaelic as “Big Rock”, an unusual name for a hill which is mostly grassy, however its top has craggy areas and the name refers to a series of rocky buttresses near the summit.
Creag Mhòr | Overview
flavidus" due to its rarity in museum collections and the unavailability of tissue samples for molecular analysis. In addition, morphological and physiological studies involving "I. flavidus" used specimens from the Cerro Hoya locality which was originally proposed as a geographic race of "I. pirrensis".
Mount Pirri isthmus rat | Introduction
At the same time, magma intruded in several phases into the folds, where it solidified under the Earth's surface into the present-day granites. As granite formed, secondary rocks were only affected by slight contact metamorphism. The rest of the molten rock with its ore-containing fluids formed pegmatite, as well as veins of ore and minerals – the basis of the medieval mining industry and early industrialisation of this region. During the Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian ("Rotliegendes") large quantities of rock debris were deposited in intramontane basins and onto the foreland of the mountain range. These basins were formed by extensional tectonics which were accompanied by an intermediate to acidic volcanism.
Fichtel Mountains | Variscan orogeny: mountains from the depths of the sea
The Rockies form a majestic mountain barrier that stretches from Canada through central New Mexico. Although formidable, a look at the topography reveals a discontinuous series of mountain ranges with distinct geological origins. The rocks making up the mountains were formed before the mountains were raised. The cores of the mountain ranges are in most places formed of pieces of continental crust that are over one billion years old. In the south, an older mountain range was formed 300 million years ago, then eroded away. The rocks of that older range were reformed into the Rocky Mountains. The Rocky Mountains took shape during a period of intense plate tectonic activity that formed much of the rugged landscape of the western United States.
Geology of the United States | Rocky Mountain System
Pseudotsuga menziesii" var. "glauca, or Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir, is an evergreen conifer native to the interior mountainous regions of western North America, from central British Columbia and southwest Alberta in Canada southward through the United States to the far north of Mexico. The range is continuous in the northern Rocky Mountains south to eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, Idaho, western and south-central Montana and western Wyoming, but becomes discontinuous further south, confined to "sky islands" on the higher mountains in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, with only very isolated small populations in eastern Nevada, westernmost Texas, and northern Mexico. It occurs from 600 m altitude in the north of the range, up to 3,000 m, rarely 3,200 m, in the south.
Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca | Introduction
Latmus is probably alluded to by Homer, when he speaks of the mountain of the Phthirians, in the neighbourhood of Miletus. Latmus appears in Greek mythology as the site of the cave where Selene's consort Endymion lies forever young and beautiful in blissful sleep.
Beşparmak Mountains | Mythology
This mountain is formed with Granite. Before 1959 nine kinds of butterfly on high mountains can be seen around the mountain. Colias erate and others can be seen now. The shape of the remaining snow of this mountain had decided the time when it farmed. The shape was called .
Mount Jōnen | Outline
Hemaris thetis, the Rocky Mountain clearwing or California clearwing, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1855. It is found from Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Utah west to California and north to British Columbia. The habitat consists of streamsides and meadows in mountainous areas. The wingspan is 35–50 mm. It is a diurnal species. The head and thorax are brownish olive or olive green. The abdomen is black or olive green above and yellow below, there is a broad yellow band. The wings have a narrow brown border and the clear parts of the wings have a steel-blue glow.
Hemaris thetis | Introduction
"Homoranthus montanus" was first formally described in 1991 by Lyndley Craven and S.R Jones and the description was published in "Australian Systematic Botany". The specific epithet ("montanus") is a Latin word meaning "of mountains".
Homoranthus montanus | Taxonomy and naming
Volcanic rock from the Cenozoic (66 million–1.8 million years ago) occurs in the San Juan Mountains and in other areas. Millennia of severe erosion in the Wyoming Basin transformed intermountain basins into a relatively flat terrain. The Tetons and other north-central ranges contain folded and faulted rocks of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age draped above cores of Proterozoic and Archean igneous and metamorphic rocks ranging in age from 1.2 billion (e.g., Tetons) to more than 3.3 billion years (Beartooth Mountains).
Geology of the Rocky Mountains | Current landscape
"Calothamnus montanus" was first formally described in 2010 by Alex George from a specimen found in the Stirling Range National Park. The specific epithet ("montanus") is "from the Latin "montanus" (montane), in reference to the occurrence".
Calothamnus montanus | Taxonomy and naming
This range is named after Haemus Mons, an old Thracian name of the Balkan mountains. It appeared on the map of Moon due to Johannes Hevelius. But he assigned this name (in the form "Mons Æmus") to another feature – remains of the rim of crater Alexander, located on the other side of Mare Serenitatis. Later the name moved to the subject of this article. The same name, but with reversed order of words – "Haemus Montes" – belongs to one of mountain systems on Io.
Montes Haemus | Introduction
Though not of particularly high elevation for the region, Hesperus Mountain is visually quite prominent, as it is near the southern edge of the San Juan Mountains and rises over above the area. Hesperus is notable as the Navajo People's Sacred Mountain of the North, "", which marks the northern boundary of the Dinetah, their traditional homeland. It is associated with the color black, and is said to be impregnated with jet. When First Man created the mountain as a replica of mountains in the Fourth World, he fastened it to the ground with a rainbow and covered it in darkness.
Hesperus Mountain (Colorado) | Mountain
Scholars consider that the name Haemus (Αἷμος) is derived from a Thracian word "*saimon", 'mountain ridge'. The name of the place where the range meets the Black Sea, Cape Emine, is derived from "Aemon". A folk etymology holds that 'Haemus' derives from the Greek word "haima" () meaning 'blood', and is based on Greek mythology. During a fight between Zeus and the monster/titan Typhon, Zeus injured Typhon with thunder; and Typhon's blood fell on the mountains, which were then named for this battle. Other names used to refer to the mountains in different time periods include "Aemon", "Haemimons", "Hem", "Emus", the Slavonic "Matorni gori" and the Turkish "Kodzhabalkan".
Balkan Mountains | Etymology
The onset of deformation of the Rocky Mountain fold and thrust belt was due to collisional tectonic forces that occurred on the west edge of the North American craton. This thrust and fold belt was uplifted east of the Canadian Cordillera and formed between the Middle Jurassic and Early Eocene within an easterly tapering wedge of Mesoproterozoic to early Cenozoic sedimentary rocks that were deposited in the Western Canada sedimentary basin. A profound unconformity separates the sedimentary cover from the Archean to Paleoproterozoic crystalline crust of North America. This thrust and fold belt has a thin skinned geometry as indicated by the array of thrust faults that interleave and overlap along strike and cut across strata at low to moderate angle that flatten with depth, repeat the same Cambrian to Triassic stratigraphy from thrust sheet to thrust sheet, and merge into a common basal décollement, the Rocky Mountain basal décollement.
Lewis Overthrust | Rise of the Rockies and formation of the Rocky Mountain Thrust and Fold Belt
It is known from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, mountainous parts of Pakistan and Kashmir, northern India (including Sikkim), Nepal, western China and Mongolia.
Parnassius simo | Range
At the same time, there were also critical voices; in particular, some American Pre-Raphaelites found his brushwork wanting. One such critic complained that it would have been better "if the marks of the brush had, by dexterous handling, been made to stand for scrap and fissure, crag and cranny, but as it is, we have only too little geology and too much bristle."
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak | Reception
Himalayas, northern range of India (included Sikkim), Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet and other parts of China.
Parnassius hardwickii | Range
The name of the genus is derived from the Buen Formation, the deposit where the species was collected, and the Greek word "aspis" (shield). The species was named in honor of Richard Fortey, a famed paleontologist.
Buenaspis | Etymology
Mount Parnassus is a sacred mountain in central Greece, near Delphi. The name "Parnassus" in literature typically refers to its distinction as the home of poetry, literature and, by extension, learning. Parnassus or Parnassos may also refer to:
Parnassus (disambiguation) | Introduction
In one derivation "Pen/Ben" is cognate with Old Irish "cenn" "head", but an original "*kwen-" would be required, which is typologically not found in languages that feature labio-velars. Windisch and Brugmann reconstructed Indo-European "*kwi-", deriving also the Greek Pindus Mountains from the same root, but "*kwen-" < "*kwi-" is not explained by any rule. By some, English "pin", as well as "pen" and Latin "pinna" or "penna" "feather" (in the sense of the horn of the quill) have been connected to the name. This view has the word originating in Latium inconsistently with the theory of the northern origin. None of these derivations are unquestionably accepted.
Apennine Mountains | Etymology
The Latin specific epithet "montana" refers to mountains or coming from mountains.
Arnica montana | Taxonomy
In a 1279 document the mountain bore the name "Adwich"; Johannes Aventinus called it "Hädweg" in 1500; and, in 1540, "Ätwa". Philipp Apian referred to it as "Aetwha m.", i.e. "Aetwha mons "(mons, montis = Lat. mountain/hill); in 1720 it was recorded on a map as "Aidweich". According to more recent research, the name is of Celtic origin. In 1740 it is recorded for the first time as "Arber".
Großer Arber | Name
Northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Parnassius delphius | Range
Mount Arganthonius or Arganthonios (), or Arganthon (Ἀργανθών), or Arganthoneion, was a mountain range in ancient Bithynia, which forms a peninsula, and divides the gulfs of Cius and Astacus. The range terminates in a headland which Ptolemy calls Posidium (modern Bozburun). The name is connected with the mythus of Hylas and the Argonautic expedition. Its modern name is Samanli Daği.
Mount Arganthonius | Introduction
The species' name is derived from that of the type locality, Mount Arjuno.
Trigonopterus arjunensis | Etymology
The specific epithet for the species is composed of the Latin words for mountain"(mons)" and fire"(igifer)", which together mean volcano, in reference to the place where the first specimen in Bolivia was photographed, Refugio Los Volcanes in Santa Cruz.
Bothrops monsignifer | Taxonomy
The Romans knew the mountain with the name "Taburnus". It lay in the Caudine part of the Samnium, near the location of the famous Battle of the Caudine Forks. The name seems to come from the Oscan language. The mountain was mentioned by Virgil in the "Aeneid" and in the "Georgics", where he described it as "mighty". In his "Cynegeticon", Gratius Faliscus described the mountain as "craggy". Bands of brigands used the massif as a refuge and a base for their activities, especially immediately after the unification of Italy.
Taburno Camposauro | History
The species name is derived from Spanish "cordillera" (meaning mountain range).
Argyrotaenia cordillerae | Etymology
By automobile, Mount Parnassus is about one hour west of Denver. Hikers may reach the summit of the mountain on foot by following the Watrous Gulch Trail, starting at the Herman Gulch Trailhead off of Interstate 70. From the trailhead, visitors must hike roughly 7 miles (round trip) and gain roughly in elevation to reach the summit.
Mount Parnassus (Colorado) | Hiking
The specific name means "from the prairie" and refers to the plains of eastern Montana where the remains were discovered.
Trierarchuncus | Discovery and naming
Parnassius maximinus is a high-altitude butterfly which is found in western ranges of the Tien Shan Mountains. It is a member of the snow Apollo genus ("Parnassius") of the swallowtail family (Papilionidae). Previously it was regarded as conspecific with "P. delphius".
Parnassius maximinus | Introduction