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GEOLOGY
MOUNTAINS ARE LIKE PEGS (STAKES)
In geology, the phenomenon of 'folding', is a recently discovered fact.
Folding is
responsible for the formation of mountain ranges. The earth's crust, on
which we live, is
like a solid shell, while the deeper layers are hot and fluid, and thus
inhospitable to
any form of life. It is also known that the stability of the mountains
is linked to the
phenomenon of folding, for it was the folds that were to provide
foundations for the
reliefs that constitute the mountains. Geologists
tell us
that the radius of the Earth is about 3,750 miles and the crust on
which we live is very
thin, ranging between 1 to 30 miles. Since, the crust is thin, it has a
high possibility
of shaking. Mountains act like stakes or tent pegs that hold the
earth's crust and give it
stability. The QUR'AN
contains exactly such a description in
the following verse:
"Have WE not made The earth as a wide Expanse, And the
mountains as pegs?"
[AL-QUR'AN
78:6-7]
The word 'awtad' means stakes or pegs (like those used to
anchor a tent); they are the
deep foundations of geological folds. A book named 'Earth' is
considered as a basic
reference textbook on geology in many universities around the world.
One of the authors of
this book is Frank Press, who was the President of the Academy of
Sciences in the USA for
12 years and was the Scientific Advisor to former US President Jimmy
Carter. In
this book he illustrates the mountain in a wdge-shape and
the mountain itself as a small part of the whole, whose root is deeply
entrenched in the
ground. {Earth, Press and Siever,
p.435. Also see Earth Science,
Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 157} According to Dr. Press, the mountains play
an important role in
stabilizing the crust of the earth.
The QUR'AN
clearly mentions the function of the mountains in preventing the earth
from shaking:
"And WE have set on the earth Mountains standing firm, Lest it
should shake with
them."
[AL-QUR'AN
21:31]
The Qur'anic descriptions are in perfect agreement with modern
geological data.
MOUNTAINS FIRMLY FIXED
The surface of the earth is broken into many rigid plates that are
about 100 km in
thickness. These plates float on a partially molten region called
aesthenosphere.
Mountain formations occur at the boumdary of the plates. The
earth's crust is 5 km
below oceans, about 35 km thick below flat continental surfaces and
almost 80 km thick
below great mountain ranges. These are the strong foundations on which
mountains stand.
The QUR'AN also speaks about the strong mountain
foundations in the following
verse:
"And the mountains Hath HE firmly fixed."
[AL-QUR'AN
79:32]
{A similar message is contained in the QUR'AN in
88:19, 31:10 and 16:15}
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