Вопрос школьника по предмету География
почему в африке можно найти многолетнюю мерзлоту
Ответ учителя по предмету География
в Африке, предположительно, вечную мерзлоту можно в незначительных количествах обнаружить в высокогорных районах и то только на трёх самых высоких горных вершинах (свыше 5800 метров). Это пики Ухуру, Мавензи горы Килиманджаро (Восточно-Африканские плоскогорье) и Шира горы Кения.
Кстати, учёные переименовали «Вечную мерзлоту» в «многолетнюю», потому что и она начинает подтаивать при глобальном потеплении.
При ответе на вопрос «Откуда в Африке вечная мерзлота?» можно сослаться на то, что длительное воздействие (на протяжении миллионов лет) температур ниже нуля привело к образованию мёрзлых горных пород.
И потом, как знать, возможно в очень далёкие времена Африка была ближе к северным районам Земли.
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In 1939 Greek archaeologist Spyridon Marinatos proposed that the relationship between the eruption of Thera and the destruction of Minoan Crete was indeed real.
He believed in the existence of volcanic ashfalls that blanketed the Minoan fields, of giant waves that smashed Minoan ships and ports, and of earthquakes that shook Minoan buildings, toppling oil lamps and igniting conflagrations that levelled the palaces.
Marinatos’s eruption theory was always controversial and he himself realized he needed to find more facts. In the mid-1960s he began looking on Thera for ancient settlements.
His discovery was sensational — Marinatos found two-storey houses well preserved in the volcanic ash.
But Marinatos found no skeletons, apparently because the inhabitants had had warning of the eruption and had fled: and he found no written records.
Marinatos knew he needed ship from outside archaeology. So he encouraged a group of geologists and other scientists to study Thera.
Some of the first bad news was reported in the early 1970s by a husband-and-wife team of geologist, Charles Vitaliano and Dorothy Vitaliano. Marinatos had urged them to search for Theran ash at Minoan sites, hoping they would find heavy ashfalls dating from 1450 B.C. After years of collecting and analyzing samples, the Vitalianos found ash, all right, but none anywhere near the date that would support Marinatos’s theory.