Mountain Hierarchic Rank Elements?

Question

Dear Colleagues,

I am looking for some papers on mountain hierarchic rank.As part of my research I need to know the elements that can classify mountains (what kinds of terrain can be called 'mountains' in different areas, height or others) and how it works.Especially in Loess Plateau, does Loess Mao can be called as a mountain?

Can anyone help with this,

Regards,

Eva

Nanjin Normal University

Answer 1

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A global geographical and social polarisation

At present, for the majority of the Cretans living on the north coast (80%), it is common practice to share their island with international tourists. From March to October each year the tourists are filling up the countless hotels and pensions in greater numbers. The top season is situated between June and September. Many initiatives for developing large scale tourism in the mountains such as farm tourism, mountain climbing, even ski centers, have failed so far. Tourists' activities there remain limited to so-called “safaris” with shiny jeeps or popular one-day excursions including a visit to the famous monastery of Arkadi, a bus drive through the Lassithi plateau where 11,000 white-plastered windmills are maintained for the sake of tourism, the tourist crowded 18km descent of the San Maria Gorge including “a lazy option”. The whole process of mass tourism in Crete has generated a geographical polarization that can be summarized as follows:

- a growing population on the north coast with expanding cities (Iraklio and Chania) and communities, multi-ethnic, modern and dynamic, expanding tourist areas in an already large-scaled tourism; versus

- the depopulated mountain hinterland with ghost villages and a few slowly growing farming communities, ethnic-autochthonous during the 20th century, traditional, one-day tourist excursions and traveling backpack tourists, older population, conservative.

On the south coast a fast growing number of communities are already thriving for tourism. Undoubtedly, this area will assume the same outlook as the north coast within a few years. At the moment many mainland Greeks spend their holidays in the South of Crete in small coast villages which are also the favourite destination of Italian tourists with campers.

The global impact of tourism furthermore causes a social polarisation -as the Cretans themselves say- between “traditional” and “modern” families on the north (south) coast. The first group attempts to observe diverse traditions, often connected with cultural habits of Orthodox Christianity. This potentially evokes quarrels and even bitter conflicts between families and neighbors. It is in particular the new economy of tourism that evokes many changes in Cretan family patterns as the pioneering research of Maria Kousis points out (1984, 1989). My fieldwork in the 1990s confirms many of her findings such as the spectacular decrease of the size of the nuclear family or the decline of the traditional “unquestioned command” (koumando) of the senior patriarch.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

What affects the mountain?The loess of north-central China: Geotechnical properties and their relation to slope stability

Simplistically loess is a "highly sensitive to water"water softening material > like saturation point has been reached (through weathering ) so what happens?So if it was a cake it would overflow the pan but it doesnt have a pan so it degrades seeps & creeps.

So wet weather patterns,land movement,loess, wind &  rainfall & in which order?

This information is relevant to that area every land formation is different.Loess is a plateau and Loess Mao is a hill BTW

read ...John M. Laflen, Junliang Tian, Chi-Hua Huang - 2000 - Technology & Engineering / Edward Derbyshire, Tom Dijkstra, Ian J ... - 1995 - Technology & Engineering