All mountain ranges are distinctly wavy, with sequential peaks and valleys, which implies some kind of wavy process during their formations.
The question to geologists:
- what process forms those geological waves; why waves?
- what the conventional geological theory (orogeny?) tells about WAVY mountains;
- is there a specific wave pattern (like number of peaks) in mountain ranges?
In a book Soliton Nature (https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B082F3MQ4L), we published the hypothesis of 'solitonic geological wave packets'
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337705410
and YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YghdUW66As.
But, not being specialist in geology, unsure about validity of solitonic hypothesis.
Any help with references to solid researches would be appreciated.
Always? No, look at Table Mountain above Cape Town. Or the Sciliar (Schlern) in South Tyrol. These mountains used to be below sea level and were sanded flat by the waves. If the mountains have never been under water, i.e. the land mass is raised, the softer rock regions are washed out by rain, the harder sections then form peaks.
Thanks, Herbert,
To clarify, I am talking about 'mountain ranges', not solitary mountains.
What you think about 'The Remarkables' from https://www.researchgate.net/deref/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4YghdUW66As?
Their shape looks like a wave packet, with 'The Ninth Wave' in the middle.
This is how a profile of some mountain ranges is described by sech function following from Nonlinear Shrodinger Equation describing envelope solitons in.many branches of physics.
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