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| Name | Earth’s Highest 7 (or 8+) Mountains by Continent (“Seven Summits”) |
| Video Uploader | Video From Geography Viz |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 29-08-2023 17:55:00 |
| Video Discription | First slide is profile imagery simplified from draped earth imagery 3D viewed horizontally with 2x vertical exaggeration. Profile summit heights are plotted approximately and are not vertically scaled. Second slide is Mount Everest Creative Commons photo Third slide is an NOAA infographic titled “Highest mountain on Earth?” Fourth slide is a map of all mentioned summits in the video over a NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center mapping of tectonism and volcanism during the last one million years. Keywords: Geography Viz, World Geography, Highest Mountains, Seven Summits, Richard Bass, Reinhold Messner, Mountain Types and Tectonic/Volcanic Settings, Mount Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Vinson Massif, Mount Elbrus, Mount Kosciuszko,Puncak Jaya, Mont Blanc, Mount Chimborazo, Mauna Kea List of summits featured in video with elevation, Seven Summit list rank [x], and type of mountain origin if in a region of high activity during the last million years: Mount Everest, 8,849 m [1], collisional orogeny Aconcagua, 6,961 m [2], stratovolcano Denali, 6,194 m [3], subduction orogeny Kilimanjaro, 5,895 m [4], stratovolcano Mount Elbrus, 5,642 m [5], stratovolcano Vinson Massif, 4,892 m [6], ancient uplift Puncak Jaya, 4,884 m [7a], subduction orogeny Mount Kosciuszko, 2,228 m [7b], ancient uplift Mont Blanc, [highest fully in Europe], collisional orogeny Mount Chimborazo, [highest from Earth center], stratovolcano Mauna Kea, [highest from sea floor base], hotspot shield volcano Inspirational graphics and source information: National Geographic (2020) Mount Everest is two feet taller, China and Nepal announce, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/new-height-of-mount-everest-announced-by-china-and-nepal [summit elevation source used for Mount Everest] Photo credit Rdevany (2012) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/Mt._Everest_from_Gokyo_Ri_November_5%2C_2012.jpg https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/highestpoint.html [summit elevation source used for Mount Chimborazo and Mauna Kea] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Summits [less reliable source of all other summit elevations, accessed 8/24/2023, various primary sources cited within] https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/education/worlds-highest-mountains https://marmotamaps.com/en/blog/wp-content/uploads/Seven-Summits_H%C3%B6hen-1024x257.png https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-seven-summits.html\ Wallenfeldt, Jeff. "7 (or 8) Summits: The World’s Highest Mountains by Continent". Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 Jul. 2018, https://www.britannica.com/list/7-or-8-summits-the-worlds-highest-mountains-by-continent NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Digital Tectonic Activity Map of the Earth (DTAM-1, 2002) Tectonism and Volcanism of the Last One Million Years, https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/88415/digital-tectonic-activity-map/88416w |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | Geography Viz | World Geography | Highest Mountains | Seven Summits | Mountain Types and Tectonic/Volcanic Settings | Mount Everest | Aconcagua | Denali | Kilimanjaro | Vinson Massif | Mount Elbrus | Mount Kosciuszko | Puncak Jaya | Mont Blanc | Mount Chimborazo | Mauna Kea | Richard Bass | Reinhold Messner |
