MOUNTAINS FIRMLY FIXED
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 boundary of the
plates. The earth’s crust is 5 km thick 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 refers to the strong
mountain foundations in the following verse:
“And the mountains
hath He firmly fixed.”
[Al-Qur’an 79:32]
Thus, the information contained in the Glorious
Qur'an about the nature of mountains, is in perfect
agreement with recent discoveries in geology.
1
Earth, Press and Siever, p. 435. Also see Earth Science,
Tarbuck and Lutgens, p. 157
2 A similar message is contained in the Qru'an in 31:10 and 16:15
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