{"id":15672,"date":"2023-10-09T06:52:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15672"},"modified":"2025-04-03T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:30:10","slug":"mont-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mont-blanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mont Blanc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mont Blanc<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the highest peak (4,807 metres) in <strong>Europe.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>located in the Alps<\/strong> and lies along the French-Italian border and reaches into Switzerland.<\/li>\n<li>It is nicknamed as &#8220;<strong>the roof of Europe&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its name comes from the perennial snow cap that covers it, meaning literally \u201c<strong>the white mountain\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The mountain stands in a <strong>range called the Graian Alps,<\/strong> between the regions of Aosta Valley, Italy, and Savoie and Haute-Savoie, France.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about Alps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Alps emerged during <strong>the Alpine orogeny, an event<\/strong> that began about 65 million years ago as <strong>the Mesozoic Era<\/strong> was drawing to a close.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>young fold mountains<\/strong> with rugged relief and high conical peaks.<\/li>\n<li>The Alps arose as a <strong>result of the collision of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates<\/strong> in which the Alpine Tethys which was formerly in between these continents disappeared.<\/li>\n<li>The Alps extend north from the <strong>subtropical Mediterranean<\/strong> coast near Nice, France, to Lake Geneva before trending east-northeast to Vienna (at the Vienna Woods).<\/li>\n<li>There they touch the Danube River and meld with the adjacent plain.<\/li>\n<li>The Alps form part of France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Albania.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Tectonic plates?<\/h3>\n<p>These are large, rigid pieces of the Earth&#8217;s lithosphere (the outermost shell of the Earth) that move and interact with each other. These plates cover the Earth&#8217;s surface and are responsible for shaping its geological features and causing various geological phenomena, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the creation of mountain ranges.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-67017736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">France&#8217;s highest mountain Mont Blanc is shrinking<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mont Blanc is located in the Alps and lies along the French-Italian border and reaches into Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}