Mount Everest
Mount Everest Mount Everest is the largest mountain in the world. Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848 meters high. It is over 60 million years old. Everest was formed by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate. Everest grows by about a quarter of an inch (0.25") every year. Everest is composed of multiple layers of rock folded back on themselves (napes) . Rock on the lower elevations of the mountain consists of metamorphic schist's and gneiss's , topped by igneous granite's . Higher up are found sedimentary rocks of marine origin (remnants of the ancient floor of the Tethys Sea that closed after the collision of the two plates). Notable is the Yellow Band, a...