Vertical Mountain Ranges in the Americas, Mexico, African Highlands, North Central Asia, and Japan, Philippines and Australia and Horizontal Mountain or Slanted Mountain Ranges Elsewhere

Abstract

Vertical Mountain Ranges exist in the Americas, North Central Asia, African Highlands and Japan, Philippines and Australia and Horizontal Mountain Ranges exist Elsewhere is a new geographical thesis like the “Frontier Thesis” of Frederick Jackson Turner delivered at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Slanted mountain ranges occur in the European continent in places like the Caucuses mountains too. Carpathian mountain ranges, Apennines, Pyrenees, Dinaric Alps can be seen as slanted mountain ranges too [1]. The Pennines of the United Kingdom can be seen as a vertical direction mountain range.