Mining Mountains is the name for the mountain range that extends lengthwise in the center of the province of West Papua and Papua (Indonesia) to Papua New Guinea Newguinea on. Rows of mountains that has some the highest peak in Indonesia was formed because the appointment of the sea floor thousands of years ago. Although located at an altitude of 4800 mdpl, fossilized sea shells, for example, can be seen on the limestone rocks and contained in klastik Jayawijaya Mountains. Therefore, besides being a paradise of the climbers, Mountain Mining is also a paradise world of geology researchers.
Mining Mountains are also the only mountain and mountain in Indonesia, which has peaks covered with eternal snow. Although not all the peaks of the Mountains Mining cluster that has snow. Snow is owned by several current peaks even been lost because of global climate change.
History of the formation of Mountain Mining
According to geological theory, the beginning of the world only has a continent called Pangea at 250 million years ago. Continent Pangea broke up into two to form the continents Laurasia and Eurasian continents. Eurasian continent broke back into Gonwana continent that later would become the mainland of South America, Africa, India, and Australia.
A very intensive precipitation occurred on the continent of Australia, plus the occurrence of plate collision between the Indo-Pacific plate with the Indo-Australian on the seabed. Plate collision resulted in the island arc, which is also the forerunners of the islands and mountains in Papua.
As a result of the appointment process of continuous, sedimentation and tectonic events along the sea bottom, within a period of millions of years to produce high mountains as you can see today.
Evidence that the island of Papua and the high mountains have become part of the deep seabed can be seen from the fossil remains in rocks Jayawijaya.
[The peaks Mining • Puncak Jaya 4860 M.dpl • Top 4884 Carstenz M.dpl • Puncak Yamin 4535 M.dpl • Peak Idenberg 4673 M.dpl • Puncak Mandala 4650 M.dpl • Peak Trikora 4730 M.dpl
Jayawijaya Mountains
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