jayawijaya mountains

Jayawijaya Mountains is the name for the mountain range that extends lengthwise in the center of the province of West Papua and Papua (Indonesia) to Papua New Guinea Newguinea on. Rows of Mountains which have some of the highest peak in Indonesia was formed by the removal of the sea floor thousands of years ago. Although located at an altitude of 4800 masl, fossilized sea shells, for example, can be seen in limestone and clastic rocks contained in Jayawijaya Mountains. Therefore, besides being a heaven for hikers, mountain paradise Jayawijaya also a world geological researchers. Jayawijaya Mountains are also the only mountain and mountain in Indonesia, which has a peak covered with eternal snow. Although not all of the peak of the cluster Jayawijaya Mountains that has snow. Snow is owned by several peaks even at this time is lost due to weather changes globally. The history of the formation of Jayawijaya Mountains According to geological theory, originally the world only have a continent named Pangea at 250 million years ago. Continent Pangaea split into two to form the continents Laurasia and Eurasian continents. Eurasian continent burst back into Gonwana continent that later would become the mainland of South America, Africa, India, and Australia. Precipitation is very intensive in the continent of Australia, plus the occurrence of plate collision between the Indo-Pacific plate with the Indo-Australian on the seabed. Plate collision resulted in the island arc, which also became the forerunner of the islands and mountains in Papua. As a result of the appointment process is ongoing, sedimentation and tectonic events along under the sea, within a period of millions of years to produce high mountains as you can see today. Evidence that the high mountains of New Guinea and its never been part of the deep seafloor can be seen from the fossil remains in rocks Jayawijaya ... For mountain climbers, climbing the ranks of Jayawijaya Mountains is a impian.Betapa not, on one mountain peak there is the highest point in Indonesia, namely Carstensz Pyramide with a height of 4884 meters above sea level (masl). Do not be surprised if a top-class mountain climbers the world is always a race to climb one of the entry points in a row of seven peaks continent. Especially with the existence of eternal snow peaks are always covered it, making more passionate desire to reach it. But who would have thought if the snowy peaks that formerly was part of a very deep ocean floor!. The island of Papua began to form at 60 million years ago. At that time, the island is still in the seabed sediments formed by rocks. Precipitation intensive originating from the continent of Australia in a long period of time generate new land that is now called Papua. At that time, Papua was integrated with Australia. While the separation of mainland Australia and Papua by the sea starts from the end of the ice age that occurred at 15,000 years ago. The melting of ice into the ocean in the end separates the mainland of Papua with the Australian continent. There are still many secrets of rocks Jayawijaya untapped. Moreover, the age of Guinea is still considered young so that the process of appointment of the island still continues to this day. This is also the reason of the mention of Papua New Guinea to Guinea, which means it is an island that is new. While the presence of snow on some peaks Jayawijaya, he believes will fade away like that of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The loss of the only snow that is owned by the mountains in Indonesia was caused by global climate changes that occur in the tropics