What are the rocks and minerals of mt Everest?

Answer 1

Mt Everest is two SiAl tectonic plates converging in a "knott." This means that they are generally light, sedementary rocks, mostly limestone.

Therefore the chemical compositions are: Silicon-, Aluminum-, and Calcium- Bicarbonates.

Answer 2

I believe that Mount Everest consists mainly of limestone, which is a sedimentary rock. Beneath the surface, kilometres beneath the surface, you may find marble as metamorphosis under pressure and low heat (regional metamorphosis) has taken place.

Answer 3

The lower section of Mount Everest is known as the 'Rongbuk Formation' and makes up the first 7,000 meters. This region of Everest is formed from sillminite-K-feldspar grade schist and a banded metamorphic rock called gneiss, which has a similar composition to granite. Also a number of dikes of leucogranite and sills, which are horizontal sheets of igneous rock stuck between older rock beds.

The middle part of Mount Everest is known as the North Col Formation, 7,000 to 8,600 meters. This section, itself, can be divided into different parts, the top 400 meters, named the 'Yellow Band', is formed from linked beds of a brown, Middle Cambrian, marble (diopside-epidote-bearing), muscovite-biotite phyllite (which contain silicate minerals) and semischist (a partly metamorphosed, layered sedimentary rock).

The Qomolangma Formation, otherwise known as the 'Jolmo Lungama Formation', consists of layers of Ordovician limestone and recrystallized dolomite, along with siltstone and laminae, together forming colours ranging from white to dark gray. Starting at 8,600 meters above sea level (above Yellow Band), the Qomolangma Formation ends at the summit.

Answer 4

It is thought that the summit of Mount Everest started at the bottom of the ancient Tethys Sea, the motion of the Indian sub continental plate and the urasian continental plate colliding, about 30 - 50 million years ago, caused the mountain to rise up and become the highest mountain on the Earth.

Answer 5

Mt Everest is made from a deep water marine shale made from three main rocks gneiss, slate and two different shades of sand stone. formed in the Precambrian Era. or made from the molten magma

Answer 6

Mount Everest is not now, and never was, a volcano. It is an upthrust of the Himalayan orogeny.

Answer 7

rocky and there are steep hills. There are also glaciers.

Answer 8

Yes, the first one, I think....